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✍️ Free Journalism Calendar — Fellowships, Grants, Workshops, Webinars, Events, Conferences and Awards ✍️ — July 3

25 free journalism calendar listings; 500+ new journalism jobs and internships; 8,500 media salary records

✍️ Free Journalism Calendar — Fellowships, Grants, Workshops, Webinars, Events, Conferences and Awards ✍️ — July 3

Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, home to the world’s largest journalism job board and calendar. Today I’ve switched up the format of the newsletter slightly, and have focused on our growing journalism calendar full of dozens of fellowships, grants, webinars, conferences, workshops and awards programs. Below I’ve included around 25 listings which have deadlines approaching.

In addition to the calendar, I added a humongous 541 new jobs and internships to the board, taking our active total to well over 1,000. And we also have almost 200 new media salaries added to our database this week, taking that total to more than 8,500.

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And lastly, we have a few new premium postings this week, including from The Daily Beast who are looking for freelance breaking news reports based outside of the U.S., and The Trace who are looking for a data editor and a reporter. Check those listings out below.

Thanks as always for reading. Have a great rest of your week and we’ll chat again soon.

🚨 Premium Postings 🚨

The Daily Beast

Freelance Breaking News Reporters

  • Location: Remote, outside U.S.
  • Ideal Candidate: The Daily Beast is looking for smart, witty and incisive writers to join our team, which delivers award-winning original reporting every day. Their fiercely independent and irreverent work reaches millions of readers every month. You will be based outside the U.S. to help deliver news to our U.S. audience around the clock. You are an all-rounder who is on top of U.S. politics, global news, media and pop culture. You have a deep understanding of American culture, preferably having lived in the U.S. or with a track record of working for American publications.
  • Salary: $45/hour
  • Deadline: Rolling

The Trace

Data Editor

  • Location: U.S.
  • Ideal Candidate: 5-7 years of experience in management; Newsroom experience and a deep understanding of journalistic standards and ethics; Technical skills including coding or advanced data analysis are nice to have but are not a prerequisite for this role. Curiosity about new technologies, how data can inform reporting and news gathering, however, are a must; A working knowledge of news visualizations and cleaning and analyzing large datasets, particularly in the public health realm; An understanding of methods for acquiring data, from FOIA requests and data scraping to working with academic researchers and local newsrooms; Familiarity leading the design, development, and publication of websites, interactives, and graphics.
  • Salary: $115,000-$135,000
  • Deadline: July 12

Great Lakes Reporter

  • Location: U.S.
  • Ideal Candidate: 6+ years of reporting experience, ideally in the Great Lakes region and/or on the criminal justice beat; Demonstrates exceptional on-the-ground news gathering skills (variety of well-cultivated and maintained sources; generates story ideas; skeptical of what they gather); Works well with colleagues to share information, insights, and ideas; Is committed to public interest journalism and wants to see gun violence coverage of Great Lakes states go beyond standard coverage by delving deeper 
  • Salary: $80,000-$100,000
  • Deadline: July 12

🗓️ Awards, Events and Fellowships Calendar 🗓️

💵 Fellowships and Grants 💵

Local News Accelerator

IPI’s Local News Accelerator is a four-month programme where you and your organization will build the foundations to develop a financially and editorially sustainable local media business. The programme will offer personalized advisory services, tools and guidance to help you reach audiences and empower your teams to grow into an engaged, responsive media brand during and after the accelerator.

2024 Summer Young Journalists Academy

The Young Journalists’ Academy is a unique programme free for young people. It aims to inspire and train the newsmakers of tomorrow. In partnership with some of the world’s leading media organisations, the YJA gives aspiring journalists the skills and the contacts they need to kick-start their careers in the media.

USC Center for Health Journalism Data Fellowship

This fellowship offers journalists an opportunity to transform their reporting by training them to “interview the data” as if it were a human source. Equipped with the tools to find original sources of information and perform data analysis, Fellows graduate from this hands-on training program prepared to produce in the five months that follow either a major investigative or explanatory health reporting project or a series of individual data-driven health stories that focus on issues important to their communities. 

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: $2,000
  • By: University of Southern California
  • Deadline: July 10

LaunchPad Fellowship for NextGen Journalists

LaunchPad is looking for talented early-career journalists from diverse backgrounds who have a demonstrated commitment to journalism and community storytelling through the lens of racial equity and social justice. Those employed by a news organization, as well as freelance/independent journalists, are encouraged to apply. 

2025 Bertha Challenge

This is an opportunity for activists and investigative journalists to spend a year working on one pressing social justice challenge and to deliver a body of work at the end of the Fellowship year. Successful applicants will receive non-residential paid Fellowships and project budgets to work independently and together to:

AI Reporting Grants

The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for its reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. They value accountability and data reporting, collaborations, and cross-discipline approaches. Staff and freelance journalists are eligible.

Nota’s Grant Program: Empowering Small Newsrooms

This initiative is a commitment to the foundational values of journalism. With Nota’s state-of-the-art AI tools, now available at an unprecedented 80% discount to newsrooms with a gross annual revenue under $250,000, facilitates journalists in navigating the complexities of today’s fast-paced digital world.

Gwen Ifill Fellowship

This one-year fellowship was created in honor of award-winning PBS NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill. The Fellow participates in the development and production off Washington Week and PBS News Weekend, with primary responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Producers of Washington Week and PBS News Weekend, including research, gathering editorial information and video elements; copy editing; and assisting with scripts

Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists

Promoting the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices. The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists provides grantees support to expose under-reported but critical global issues; Undertake ambitious projects that challenge traditional media narratives; Develop field-based expertise and strengthen careers; Pursue training and leadership opportunities; Launch entrepreneurial news projects or acquire the skill to do so.

  • Type: Grant
  • Stipend: Up to $10,000
  • By: International Women’s Media Foundation
  • Deadline: Rolling

Rainforest Reporting Grant

The Rainforest Reporting Grant provides short-term, project-based funding support to journalists who want to report on tropical rainforests in three key regions: the Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia. It seeks ambitious reporting proposals looking into critical issues including illegal deforestation, Indigenous rights, the extraction industry, biodiversity, and more. Staff and freelance journalists are eligible.

🧠 Events and Training 🧠

Investigating Political Nonprofits, Scam PACs and More

ProPublica’s new 527 Explorer database delves into the shadowy world of political cash facilitated by nonprofits called 527s. In this webinar, they will show users how to follow the money.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: ProPublica
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 9
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Journalist Safety Covering The Election: Protests, Policing and Crowds

This training will equip journalists with knowledge to safely cover election-related protests, civil unrest, and crowded events. The training will focus on physical safety and include information on situational awareness, assessing risk, dealing with aggression, police tactics, personal protective equipment, and protest management weaponry.

  • Type: Training
  • By: Committee to Protect Journalists
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 9
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

An Editor’s Guide to AI

This course is designed for managing editors, executive editors, desk editors, social media editors—anyone in charge of directing coverage, commissioning stories, or packaging and producing them for public consumption. You will identify different types of AI stories and dissect what sets apart the best coverage, including its framing, headline, and artwork. You’ll learn how to assess both pitches and filed stories, and avoid common pitfalls that can mislead or confuse an audience (or an editor).

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Pulitzer Center
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 10
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Interviewing and Networking Skills + Dos and Don'ts for Young Professionals

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: National Association of Black Journalists
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 10
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Digital Security Workshop

This workshop offers 2.5 hours of security training for journalists to evaluate their current security profiles and provide tips on how to improve the security of your devices, your data, your internet traffic and your identity.

  • Type: Workshop
  • By: Investigative Journalism For Europe
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 11
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Fundraising Strategies For Critical Media Literacy Projects

In this session, participants will learn how to map the fundraising landscape for opportunities and draft successful proposals. Discover tips for building donor relationships, aligning goals with funders' expectations, and exploring non-traditional funding sources.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Tactical Tech
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 11
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Audio Intensive Storytelling Course

During this four-week online course, which will be held from July 15 – August 11, 2024, students will deepen their understanding of how to create audio journalism. You’ll explore the different forms of audio journalism and help you hone your audio storytelling skills – from creating a reporting plan that includes audio to performing your story on a microphone.

  • Type: Training
  • By: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 15
  • Cost: $95
  • Registration

Digital Tools for Investigation

This is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

  • Type: Workshop
  • By: The Centre for Investigative Journalism
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 17
  • Cost: £20-£302
  • Registration

Mini Lab: How to Use AI to Help With Grant Writing

Join ICFJ Knight Fellow and Newsroom Robots Podcast Host Nikita Roy for a live demo and tips on using generative AI tools to brainstorm and refine grant applications. Participants will learn how AI can facilitate the grant writing process, with a focus on practical applications and examples, particularly from small local newsrooms that have successfully used AI to help with their grant applications.

  • Type: Workshop
  • By: Online News Association
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 17
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Focusing On Communities and Solutions In The 2024 Election Coverage

Amid rising news avoidance and dissatisfaction with conventional "horse race" coverage, more newsrooms are shifting their focus to community-centered and solutions-focused election reporting. Join this panel of experts as they share their insights and answer your questions.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 18
  • Registration

🏆 Awards 🏆

Rising Star Awards

The Rising Star Awards champion young talent, the bright future of the print industry. Every year, winners receive grants of up to £1,500 to invest in career development and grow their future potential in print. Previous winners have worked in a wide range of roles in the print, packaging, paper, publishing and graphics sectors.

Climate Journalism Award 2024

The Award promotes innovative and creative storytelling that highlights the fight against climate change and values high-quality reporting on climate and environmental issues.

Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism

The prize rewards on a yearly basis outstanding journalism that promotes or defends the core principles and values of the European Union such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, and human rights.

AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards

  • Type: Award
  • Prize: $3,500-$5,000
  • By: American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Deadline: August 1

Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize 2024

The 2024 Global Contest promotes climate justice. We believe climate change is a human rights issue, so we are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis. They include climate refugees, the very young, the very old, the disabled and injured, the poor, indigenous and island people, and women. Images of climate champions advocating for change, and those helping to mitigate and reverse climate change are welcome.

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