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Call for Fellowship Applications!
The all-expenses-paid fellowship, to be held July 16–20, 2023, is designed for journalists who want to do groundbreaking reporting on health disparities and on vulnerable children, youth and families, and the community conditions and social forces that contribute to their health, welfare and well-being. Each fellow spends five months working on a substantive reporting project, assisted by a reporting grant of $2,000–$10,000 and mentored by a veteran journalist.
Upcoming fellowship dates
Fellowship week: July 16-20, 2023
Application deadline
May 5, 2023
Program description
Our National Fellowship helps journalists and their newsrooms report deeply and authoritatively on the health, welfare and well-being of children, families and communities. The program prepares Fellows to report a major enterprise health or social well-being reporting project in the months that follow our initial week of intensive learning in Los Angeles.
The National Fellowship provides journalists a chance to step away from breaking news to take a deep look together at pervasive social and economic inequities in the United States, and the lasting health effects of systemic racism and exclusion on families and communities. Our program places strong emphasis on the ways in which environmental and community conditions can influence how long and how well we live. The program helps Fellows craft projects that engage communities from the start, and shares hard-won insights on how to land big projects that deliver maximum impact on the health and well-being of communities. These are projects that change laws and change minds.
Fellows join us for a busy in-person learning intensive, where they have a chance to have intimate conversations with nationally renowned health experts, policy analysts and community health leaders, from top journalists in the field, and from each other. That’s followed by ongoing mentoring and virtual meetings to support Fellows across the finish line.
Admitted Fellows receive:
- Reporting grants of $2,000-$10,000.
- Five days of informative and stimulating discussions.
- Five months of professional mentorship, including skills-building workshops.
- Fellows are also eligible and encouraged to apply for engagement grants that support new community-journalism partnerships.
Who can apply?
- U.S.-based professional journalists with a minimum of three years of professional experience.
- Reporters who hold full-time staff positions in newsrooms that are both large and small.
- Freelancers who earn the majority of their income from journalism and have a confirmed assignment for their proposed projects.
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The 2023 National Fellowship is made possible thanks to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and The California Endowment.
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