Workshops and Fellowships

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 10-17, 2024, 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 16.

Looking for new freelance clients in 2024 or thinking about becoming a freelancer? The National Press Club invites you to Washington, DC for a workshop with editors from the Washington Post, Washingtonian, Slate, AARP Bulletin, Industry Dive, Brainfacts.org, POLITICO, WHYY, and more. 1-4:30 p.m. ET.

The U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics invites applications for one of ten $10,000 reporting grants for journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics. Open to journalists worldwide. Deadline: Jan 31, 2025.

Orion is accepting applications for six online writing workshops in nonfiction and poetry that will begin in January and February 2024. Apply by Nov 15.

ProPublica is looking for an Ancil Payne Reporting Fellow to do enterprising, hard-hitting stories from their headquarters in New York. The paid fellowship starts in January 2024 and runs for two years. Remote applicants need not apply. Deadline: Nov 27, 2023

The Pulitzer Center's RIN offers one-year, full-time, paid, remote fellowships to harness investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration in investigating the causes driving industrial-scale deforestation in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions: Amazon, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. Deadline: Dec 31, 2024.

Proposals for this year-long fellowship at Harvard University may deal with any issue relating to journalism’s digital transformation. Open to both international and U.S. journalists, including freelancers. Deadlines: Dec 1, 2023 and Jan 31, 2024, respectively.