Workshops and Fellowships

The Native American Journalists Association and NBCUniversal are partnering to give NAJA member-students real world experience and exposure to one of the world’s leading news divisions as a paid summer 2023 intern.  Deadline to apply is Feb 10.

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites journalists on an expenses-paid learning expedition down the Lower Mississippi to get a first-hand look at some of the stories along its shores, April 24-May 1, 2019, visiting small river towns to large global ports as we travel from St. Louis to New Orleans. Apply by Feb 22.

InsideClimate News, the Pulitzer Prize-winning national nonprofit newsroom, will hold a free, two-day training for about ~12 winning applicants from March 7-8, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. The workshop will be focused on business journalism and center on covering the clean-energy economy in the Midwest. Deadline is Feb 1.

This fellowship provides support to international journalists who enroll in one of nine graduate programs in journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (including Science, Health and Environmental Reporting). Deadline: Jan 15, 2024.

Do you use FOIA requests in your work? Can’t live without FOIA, but wish you were better at it? SEJ is co-sponsoring this free workshop at the CUNY Law School in New York. Pick up tips that will turn you into a FOIA pro in no time. The event will be livestreamed in part to some colleges around the country.

The hybrid Logan fellowship (virtual and in New York) is for writers, documentary filmmakers, photojournalists, podcasters and multimedia creators working on a longform project on issues such as environment and climate change; food security; health; inequality; media and journalism; social justice; and sustainability and resilience. Deadline: Dec 15, 2021.

This brand new Nieman Foundation for Journalism fellowship at Harvard University will take place during the 2019-2020 academic year. Includes a $70,000 stipend, as well as an opportunity to take classes at other local universities and to interact with the robust scientific community based in and around Greater Boston. Deadlines: Dec. 1, 2018 (international applicants); Jan. 31, 2019 (U.S. applicants).

The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism invites journalists to apply for the 2025 fellowship, Oct 7-10, an online training on how to “interview the data” as if it were a human source. Fellows receive a grant and mentoring to work on an ambitious reporting project. Deadline: Aug 12.

Metcalf Institute's biennial symposium brings together people who work to shift science and science communication toward a just, equitable, and inclusive future. In-person at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, October 19-21, 2023; virtual sessions on 9/29/23, 10/6/23, 10/13/23, and 11/3/23.

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will take journalists to Quebec, Ontario and New York, Sep 23-29, 2018, for a look at the economic and ecological impacts of this major shipping thoroughfare, including topics such as endangered and invasive species, as well as the impacts of current agricultural and municipal practices and the region's legacy of industrial activity. Apply by Aug 10 extended to Aug 17.