Workshops and Fellowships

The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism invites journalists to apply for the 2020 fellowship, Nov 30-Dec 4, 2020, for an expenses-paid online training on mining data sources to reveal key insights essential to high-impact journalism. Fellows receive a grant and mentoring to work on a substantive reporting project. Deadline: Oct 16.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is partnering with NAHJ and the Miami Herald Media Company for a three-month fellowship program that seeks to expand investigative reporting opportunities for diverse journalists. Includes a $30,000 grant, expenses and a stipend. Apply by Oct 7, 2019.

Journalists and environmental communicators are invited to this free workshop on April 7, 2018 in Detroit, co-sponsored by MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and Wayne State University. Space is limited. Register by Mar 23.

The International Center for Journalists invites U.S. minority journalists to apply by Feb 18, 2020 to report overseas in a country of your choosing. The Bringing Home the World Fellowship program includes costs for travel, lodging, and interpreters.

Journalists and environmental communicators are invited to a free workshop in Detroit, co-sponsored by MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and Wayne State University. Space is limited. Register by Mar 23.

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites journalists on an expenses-paid exploration of the upper reaches of the Mississippi River basin, Jun 16-23, 2018. Take a deep dive into agriculture, water quality and the implications of the next Farm Bill. Apply by Apr 13.

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (IJNR) invites journalists to register for Living with Wildfire workshop, to be held in Missoula, MT in Apr 4-6, 2019. Registration opens at noon (MST) Feb 27 and the registration link will be sent to the first 20 qualified applicants. The registration form is now viewable and interactive. You can upload your resumé, clip, and payment information at any time this morning. Then, precisely at noon (MST), hit "submit."

The next Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism/City University of New York (CUNY) fellowship will be held Oct 26-Nov 1, 2019. Includes lodging, tuition, most meals and travel costs. Open to all professional, mid-career journalists. Apply by Sep 18.

COMPASS travel fellowships for journalists from the U.S. and Canada to attend the North American Congress for Conservation Biology in Denver, Colo., July 26-31, 2020, include travel costs, lodging and expenses stipend. The goal is to inform reporting about conservation science in a broad range of outlets and to provide opportunities for journalists to connect with conservation research. Apply by Mar 16.

The GroundTruth Project and WCAI, the local NPR member station for the Cape, Islands and South Coast, invite applications for a new reporting fellowship that will explore how individuals and communities are coping with the realities of climate change. Two emerging journalists will report for six months in WCAI's newsroom in Woods Hole, MA. Deadline to apply is Feb 12.