Workshops and Fellowships

Trout Unlimited will hold a summit on renewable energy the week of May 27 in Saratoga, Wyoming, the future site of North America’s largest wind project. This summit will focus largely on the expansion of renewable energy to public lands across the West, and how that will impact the heritage the West has long been known for. It will feature candid conversations with local sportsmen, as well as presentations by fish and wildlife experts. Trout Unlimited is accepting applicants currently working in print, broadcast, radio and online media. Apply by email by March 15, 2013.

The Middlebury Fellowships, directed by Bill McKibben, each year help 10 early-career journalists work through an ambitious reporting project from the beginning through publication or broadcast. The program runs week-long residencies for the selected Fellows at Middlebury College, VT, in the fall and at Monterey Institute for International Studies, CA, in the spring. $10,000 stipend. Apply by May 15, 2013.

This Saturday workshop in Seattle will inspire attendees to continue writing about the environment in all its guises. Instructors bring years of experience as writers, researchers, and teachers. Each is an attentive observer who weaves together history, science, and field time into well-crafted, thought-provoking writing about the natural and cultural world.

The journal Science offers an 11-week, paid summer internship for undergraduate students who are interested in journalism as a career and who want to learn about science writing. The internship is intended to increase diversity among journalists who cover science. Deadline: Jan 10, 2025.

This two-day Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley workshop is a hands-on program providing training in every phase of video planning, production and digital delivery.

Join the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley for two days of comprehensive training on how to leverage the power of social media and storytelling to develop audiences, trust relationships and engagement.

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalists and SEJ present a free webinar on California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program, which starts Nov. 14. Don’t miss this informative, hour-long webinar with University of California, Los Angeles economist Matthew Kahn.

The East-West Center in Honolulu is accepting applications until Jun 17 for the 2019 China-United States Journalists Exchange: Aug 31-Sep 13 to visit Beijing, Hangzhou and Hong Kong (for US journalists) and Sep 8-14, to visit Des Moines, Iowa and Washington, DC (for Chinese journalists).

The 6 free seminars, established by Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting to honor Lord’s outstanding contributions to environmental journalism, take place in 2012-2013 and are open to Southern New England journalists reporting for Rhode Island audiences. Next in the series is Predicting and Responding to Extreme Weather Events on September 20, 2013. Space is limited; apply asap.

The East-West Center in Honolulu is accepting applications until October 8th for the 2014 Pakistan-United States Journalists Exchange, March 30-April 19, 2014. Pakistani journalists visit Washington, D.C., New York City and Columbia, Missouri. U.S. journalists visit Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.