5 fellowships and grants to explore
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In February, I wrote about the quickly-to-be-created Awards, Grants & Fellowship tab in the Freelance Centre and highlighted five alternatives with approaching deadlines. Due to the fact then, the tab has been designed and populated with descriptions of 19 non-AHCJ awards, grants and fellowships. Make sure you email me if you have solutions to include to the record.
Most deadlines for the listed awards are someday in the 1st four months of the 12 months and so have passed, but quite a few fellowship and grant deadlines are approaching. Here are five of them:
The Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship
These fellowships are open up to U.S. citizens who are entire-time print journalists, which includes freelancers. Recipients obtain $40,000 for a complete-calendar year fellowship or $20,000 for a six-month fellowship. The purpose of the application is to “provide help for journalists engaged in demanding, probing, spirited, impartial and skeptical perform that will advantage the community.” Winners are expected to produce 4 print articles. The competitors opened in June, and applications must be been given by Oct 1, 2022. The on the internet application will have to consist of a fellowship proposal, work samples, two references, a qualified autobiography and a undertaking finances.
Fund for Investigative Journalists Grants
These grants of up to $10,000 are to defray the expenditures of an investigation that uncovers wrongdoing by effective individuals or establishments. The deadline for programs is September 7, 2022. Applicants have to involve a letter of commitment from a information outlet to operate the articles. “The grants we offer cover the costs of investigations – gas dollars to interview resources, charges for copying open data, stipends for the hundreds of several hours reporters invest digging by way of details,” according to the web-site. The fund gives a 30-minute webinar with recommendations for implementing.
The Knight Science Journalism System at Massachusetts Institute of Technologies (MIT) gives fellowships to 10 science journalists for an tutorial year. Just about every fellow models a special course of study and must audit at minimum 1 science system for each semester at universities in the Boston space. Fellows are necessary to comprehensive a investigation challenge through their time at MIT. “Some factor of the investigation project have to be journalistic in character, but it can increase outside of common parameters and in any format: prolonged-variety, story collection, multimedia, online video, audio, installation, etcetera,” according to the internet site. Fellows obtain a $70,000 stipend and simple overall health insurance.
The Knight-Wallace Fellowships
Up to 20 experienced journalists are selected for an eight-month system of immersive analyze at the College of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Fellows get a $75,000 stipend and audit courses, take part in seminars and workshops and do the job on an person journalism challenge. Applications for the 2023-2024 tutorial year will open in slide 2022, and the deadline is February 1, 2023. Winners are announced in early May perhaps.
Pulitzer Center’s Global Reporting Grants
These grants assist reporting on crucial problems from world well being to weather alter. The tales of grant winners handle the root causes of crises globally, together with in the United States. Awards include reporting fees and can be $10,000 or much more. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. The software requires a venture description, a letter of fascination or commitment from editors, a price range, samples of revealed function and three specialist references.