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Renaissance Journalism Fellowships
Fellowship from Renaissance Journalism
Renaissance Journalism offers a limited number of fellowships in support of its initiatives designed to promote equity and social justice through improved journalism and storytelling. A fellow is an individual … Last updated September 20, 2025
National Geographic Society: Coastal Ecosystems Grant
Grant up to $20,000 from National Geographic Society
The Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic (LEX-NG) Fund is supported by travelers aboard National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions voyages and has a mission to support projects that help better understand and protect our world’s … Last updated August 29, 2025
Knight Center Journalism Courses
Rolling, Training from Knight Center Journalism Courses
The Knight Center offers innovative, free, and low-cost educational training programs to support journalists worldwide. The Knight Center’s comprehensive curriculum covers cutting-edge topics such as AI, digital journalism techniques, fact-checking, … Last updated August 29, 2025
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Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellowship
Fellowship from Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
The Ida B. Wells Society has launched its 2025 Investigative Reporting Fellowship, an intensive, no-cost training program designed to sharpen the investigative skills of working journalists. About the Fellowship Up … Last updated August 22, 2025
Google News Initiative
Training from Google News Initiative
Sharpen your skills and learn current best practices in digital journalism, audience development and revenue growth with self-paced lessons and workshops provided by the Google News Initiative. … Last updated February 27, 2026
2025 Civic Science Media Collaborations Program
Grant from Center for Cooperative Media
The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, with support from the Rita Allen Foundation, is offering a funding opportunity for civic science media projects. The awards aim to accelerate civic science … Last updated August 7, 2025
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Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
Fellowship up to $5,500 from International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship gives working journalists a new opportunity to sharpen their reporting and writing skills, while learning about another country and transatlantic relations. This exchange sends U.S. … Last updated December 17, 2025
FIRE Virtual Newsroom
Grant up to $12,500 from FIRE Newsroom
The Virtual Newsroom offers a range of services, from open-records coaching and trained research assistance to legal review. Funding In some cases, Virtual Newsroom recipients also receive one of two … Last updated December 2, 2025
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The Alexia Grants
Grant from The Alexia Foundation
For over 30 years, The Alexia grants have supported student and professional visual communicators who produce projects that inspire change by addressing socially significant topics. Grants are awarded to applicants … Last updated December 2, 2025
IRE Freelance Fellowship
Fellowship up to $4,000 from Investigative Reporters & Editors
Created in 2008, the fellowships are awarded for nonfiction project proposals which demonstrate impact, breadth and significance. Proposals for books, documentaries, cable series and other long-form projects are eligible. We … Last updated December 2, 2025
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The W. Eugene Smith Grant
Fellowship, Grant from W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
The W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year … Last updated December 2, 2025
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Science Journalism Master Classes
Rolling, Training from The Open Notebook
Wherever you are in your career—novice, developing, or established—The Open Notebook’s Science Journalism Master Classes will help you sharpen your ability to find and vet story ideas, craft effective pitches, … Last updated March 12, 2026
Covering Science at the Local Level: A Peer-Mentoring Community
Mentorship from The Open Notebook
The Open Notebook’s Covering Science peer-mentoring program is a diverse community of practice for local and general assignment reporters and editors who may not have a background in science but are interested … Last updated March 12, 2026
Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalism Mentoring Program
Mentorship from The Open Notebook
The Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalism Mentoring Program is a free cohort-based mentoring program aimed at increasing the diversity of voices covering science and supporting journalists who are from underrepresented communities … Last updated July 25, 2025
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Chips Quinn Reporter Fellowship
Fellowship, Grant/Stipend up to $10,000 from Freedom Forum
The Chips Quinn Reporter Fellowship provides mentorship and training for early-career journalists with up to five years of full-time experience. Fellows receive mentorship, training and a $10,000 career stipend. The Chips Quinn … Last updated July 23, 2025
One-on-One Safety Consultation
Consultation from International Women’s Media Foundation
The IWMF and its Coalition Against Online Violence partners are offering journalists the opportunity to sign up for free one-on-one safety consultations. Concerned about a recent threat, online abuse, government surveillance or … Last updated March 12, 2026
Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Americas
Grant, Microgrant from International Women’s Media Foundation
The International Women’s Media Foundation is pleased to provide grants to support reporting focused on reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States. These grants support … Last updated July 23, 2025
2025 Lauren Brown Fellowship
Microgrant up to $2,000 from International Women’s Media Foundation
The Lauren Brown Fellowship was created in memory of Lauren Alix Brown, a founding editor at Quartz Media who died in 2019 at the age of 37. As director of special projects, she … Last updated July 23, 2025
2025 Ukraine Reporting Grant
Fellowship, Grant up to $8,000 from International Women’s Media Foundation
With support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the IWMF is launching Women on The Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines, a program to increase and deepen coverage of critical … Last updated December 2, 2025
The Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellowship
Fellowship from Investigative Reporters & Editors
This yearlong program is intended to prepare and support a journalist of color for a solid career in investigative reporting. It provides assistance to attend multiple IRE trainings, including a … Last updated December 2, 2025
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