Workshops and Fellowships

The Native American Journalists Association and Comcast 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 2022 intern.  Deadline to apply is Feb 18.

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.

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 2021 fellowship, Oct 25-29, 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 an ambitious reporting project. Deadline: Sep 1.

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.