Workshops and Fellowships

Metcalf Institute invites applications from newsrooms in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont for this fellowship providing virtual interactive training, coaching, an in-person visit and a $1,000 stipend. Deadline is Aug 19, 2025.

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will bring 15 journalists to Montana, Oct 5-12, 2025, and introduce them to subject matter experts including Tribal members, ecologists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, climate scientists, ranchers, land managers, and other stakeholders whose life or livelihood is based on the landscape. Deadline: Aug 22.

Investigative Reporters & Editors' yearlong program aims to prepare and support a journalist of color for a career in investigative reporting. It provides assistance to attend multiple IRE trainings, including a Data Journalism Bootcamp, the NICAR Conference, the IRE Conference and more. Apply by Sep 1, 2025.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network will offer US$2,000 each to 10 social media content creators and 10 journalists across South and Southeast Asia, to boost their skills, participate in peer learning and produce high-quality biodiversity-related video content for their audiences. Apply by Jul 16, 2025.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is hosting a virtual media workshop in late Aug for business and finance journalists in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand seeking to strengthen their climate-focused reporting on Asia’s business sector. Story grants available. Apply by Aug 1.

This Islamic Scholarship Fund fellowship supports emerging Muslim journalists with a professional development grant (up to $10,000), travel stipend (up to $5,000) to attend journalism conferences, 1:1 mentorship and skills training, and more. Apply by Jul 9, 2025.

This one-year fellowship, offered by the Islamic Scholarship Fund in partnership with Religion News Service, includes a 12-week, full-time, paid, remote internship, coaching and editorial support, financial support to attend a national journalism conference and more. Apply by Jul 9, 2025.

The Climate Change Media Partnership, led by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, will provide in-person and virtual fellowships to journalists from low- and middle-income countries to cover COP30 in Brazil, Nov 10-21, 2025. Apply by Jul 15.

NPR’s Next Gen Radio is a five-day, audio-focused, digital journalism project (some people in-person, some not). Next up: Texas Newsroom, ​Aug 24-29, 2025. Apply by Jul 28. Learn how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece and a companion multimedia story.