Workshops and Fellowships

Knight Science Journalism at MIT announces a new one-semester fellowship, Aug 15-Dec 31, 2024, with a $40,000 stipend, insurance and housing stipend. Open to journalists from the region with at least three years of experience in covering science, health and the environment. Apply by Mar 1.

This virtual five-month mentorship program is for early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world, including Black writers and those who identify as Indigenous, persons of color, LGBTQ+, immigrants, writers with disabilities and more. Deadline: Jan 31, 2025.

These three- or six-month fully funded fellowships at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, are for journalists and editors with a minimum of five years' experience to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. Apply by Feb 13, 2025.

This year, Solutions Journalism Network is offering 20 fellowships to U.S.-based journalists who want to produce climate solutions stories that shift the climate conversation from unsolvable and apocalyptic to actionable and engaging. The program will run March through November 2024. Apply by Feb 5.

Hearken, Trusting News and Solutions Journalism Network are inviting 20 U.S.-based newsroom teams to apply for this fellowship which is designed to help newsrooms think big, plan long term and reinvent coverage of politics, governance and elections with and for their communities. Deadline is Jan 22, 2024.

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists invites applications from member college students who want the opportunity to work on improving their skills in a newsroom setting during the organization's 2024 national convention in Chicago, July 9-12, 2025, expenses paid. Deadline to apply is Dec 20.

The 2024 Women in Journalism Workshop, Apr 12-14 at the Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Missouri, focuses on challenges, accomplishments and issues specific to women in the journalism industry today. Apply by Jan 24, 1:00 a.m.

The New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute offers full-tuition scholarships to members of the Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Journalists Associations admitted to one of the nine NYU Journalism graduate programs in the fall of 2025, including Science, Health & Environmental Reporting. Deadline: Jan 6, 2025.

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites journalists to apply by Jan 3 for this four-part workshop: three virtual one-day webinars and a multi-day in-person workshop in Chicago exploring current work being done to chart a greener course in America’s Rust Belt and what these efforts mean for the region and the country.

Mid-career journalists who want to write a novel or fictional prose are invited to apply for this workshop, Jul 7-15, 2026, at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications in Evanston, Ill. Fully funded by "Game of Thrones" author Martin, pictured left. Deadline: Jan 12.