Opportunities
Opportunities may be grants, stipends, fellowships, free or subsidized training, or in-kind services in support of local journalism efforts. View opportunities with applications open now | View opportunities with applications accepted on a rolling basis
Diversity Fellowships
Fellowship up to $1,700 from Investigative Reporters & Editors
The Diversity Fellowships are funded by the Philip L. Graham Fund, the IRE Diversity Development Fund and individual donors. The goal of the fellowships is to increase the diversity of … Last updated February 26, 2023
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Cross-field collaboration: Apply for a pilot grant to support civic science journalism
Grant up to $15,000 from Center for Cooperative Media
The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University is delighted to announce a new grant opportunity in partnership with Rita Allen Foundation. The project aims to accelerate civic science journalism cross-field collaborations in the … Last updated February 26, 2023
Maynard 200 Fellowship
Fellowship, Training from Maynard Institute
The Maynard 200 Fellowship provides professional development training and year-long mentorship for leaders, storytellers, frontline editors and managers, and media entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds. Fellows benefit from cutting-edge curricula designed and delivered … Last updated February 26, 2023
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New Mexico Local News Accelerator
Fellowship from New Mexico Local News Fund
The New Mexico Local News Fund is supporting another round of grants to support diverse local newsrooms in the state and help them reach financial sustainability through the New Mexico Local … Last updated February 26, 2023
Light Work Grants in Photography
Grant up to $3 from Light Work
Light Work is pleased to announce the 2021 Light Work Grants in Photography competition. Light Work began offering grants to CNY artists in 1975 to encourage the production of new … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Magnum Foundation Fellowship
Fellowship up to $6,000 from Magnum Foundation
The Magnum Foundation Fellowship offers mentorship and stipends to early-career practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as photographers. This fellowship is designed for New York City-based … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting
Award up to $3,000 from Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
CASW established the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting in 2000. Given annually, the prize seeks to honor a writer for a body of work published or … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship
Fellowship from Stand Together Fellowships
The year-long Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship is for early-career journalists who are aspiring future leaders in the industry. As a finalist for the fellowship, you’ll have the opportunity to … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Ida B. Wells Fellowship
Fellowship up to $25 from Type Media Center
The Ida B. Wells Fellowship, founded in 2016, promotes diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters who come from underrepresented backgrounds, and bring those experiences, … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Type Media Center Journalism Fellowship
Fellowship, Rolling from Type Media Center
The Journalism Fellowship Program at Type Media Center is a multi-year fellowship that allows emerging and established journalists to write on complex social and political issues. The fellows form a … Last updated February 22, 2023
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The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
Fellowship from The Carter Center
Every year, eight U.S. journalists are selected and awarded stipends of $10,000 each to cover fellowship project expenses. Selected international journalists are awarded a comparable stipend. If you apply as … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Health and Wellbeing Grants
Grant from Santa Fe Community Foundation
The Health & Wellbeing grants cycle takes place in the spring each year, in conjunction with the Community Health Funders Alliance. The 2022 spring grants cycle RFP opens April 1, … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Rory Peck Trust Assistance Grants
Grant from Rory Peck Trust
Telling the stories the world needs to hear can come at great personal risk to freelance journalists many of whom have been seriously injured, threatened, imprisoned, detained, forced into exile, … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship 2023-24
Training from The Poynter Institute
As a Poynter-Koch fellow, you’ll receive nearly a year of career development, delivered by seasoned journalism veterans and industry experts who care deeply for early career journalists. You will have the … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Deep Dives: Ocean and Fisheries Reporting
Grant from Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center, a nonprofit organization that supports independent global journalism, is now accepting applications for a new reporting initiative focused on oceans and fisheries. It is seeking ambitious reporting … Last updated January 30, 2023
Ochberg Fellowship
Fellowship from Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship is a unique seminar program for veteran and mid-career journalists who wish to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury, and improve reporting … Last updated January 30, 2023
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Belk Foundation Spring Cycle
Grant from Belk Foundation
The Belk Foundation doesn’t just invest with money. The foundation invests with time, with advocacy, with action. It pursues its mission with a hands-on approach, working “on the ground” and … Last updated January 30, 2023
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The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling
Award from International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling, a collaboration between the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), the ONE Campaign, and the Elliott family, honors up-and-coming journalists in Africa … Last updated January 30, 2023
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Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
Fellowship from International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
ICFJ’s longest-running program, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship provides talented young U.S., German and Canadian journalists the opportunity to live and work in each other’s country. This highly personalized and practical … Last updated January 30, 2023
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SPJ Foundation Grants
Grant from Society of Professional Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists Foundation grants primarily support SPJ and also provide support to organizations and causes that further our mission. Grant requests are first reviewed by the Foundation Grants … Last updated January 30, 2023
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