Religion News Service (RNS) and Interfaith America (IA) invite applications for the 2025-2026 RNS/IA Religion Journalism Fellowship [1].

The fellowship will run from September 2025 to May 2026. The fellows will be awarded a $4,200 stipend and are expected to report and write at least one feature religion story monthly, published on the RNS website and considered for publication, as relevant, on the Interfaith America Magazine site. The fellowship is primarily virtual, but fellows will have to travel for two mandatory, fully sponsored in-person gatherings. One is a writing and storytelling workshop in Chicago in the Fall of 2025, and another is a convening at the Religion News Association (RNA) conference in the Spring of 2026.  

Applications are open to all journalism graduates who have completed their degree in the past three years, and to freelance reporters and storytellers in interfaith spaces who may not have a journalism degree but have at least a year of relevant reporting experience. This fellowship is only open to people living in the United States.

Application deadline is July 18, 2025.

More information [1].