DEADLINE: Pulitzer Center's Ocean Reporting Fellowships

The Pulitzer Center invites applications to join the third cohort of the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN), a fellowship program that gives professional journalists the opportunity to spend up to a year working on an in-depth or investigative ocean story.

We welcome ambitious proposals on the main ocean threats of climate change; over- and illegal fishing; biodiversity loss and pollution; and the impact on species, ecosystems, and communities. But we also strongly encourage proposals on underreported topics that also deserve attention, such as deep-sea mining, marine energy generation, blue finance and carbon crediting, marine genetic resources and benefit sharing, shipping, marine carbon dioxide removal and ocean geoengineering, aquaculture, marine protected areas (creation, implementation, and management), polar issues, fishmeal production, and more. Data projects that use marine, scientific, and satellite data and science-based projects that look at ocean systems are also a priority for us. 

We continue to seek investigations that include, or are tailor-made for, a cross-border, collaborative approach. 

We also have spaces reserved for Fellowships dedicated to investigations focused on transparency and governance. This includes uncovering the financial structures that enable environmental damage and unsustainable supply chains. Relevant ocean topics could be flags and ports of convenience, government subsidies, monitoring, control and surveillance, fishing access agreements, tax loopholes, beneficial ownership, seafood supply chains, illegal wildlife trade, and more. 

We particularly welcome applications from the Global South, and seek more reporting in particular from Asia-Pacific, east Africa, and Latin America.

Applicants can be staff or freelancers, and up to nine Fellowships are available. The full-time Fellowships, up to a year long, will provide a reporter’s salary and additional reporting expenses.

Deadline: Sep 12, 2025

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