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✍️ Journalism Awards, Events and Fellowships Deadlines ✍️ — June 23

New fellowships at Google, ProPublica, Mongabay, the Evening Standard, The Independent, and Poynter

✍️ Journalism Awards, Events and Fellowships Deadlines ✍️ — June 23

Hello folks, happy Friday! Hope we all had fun and productive weeks, and are ready to enjoy the weekend weekend.

In today’s newsletter we added 12 new applications as part of 40+ total listings on our Journalism Awards, Events and Fellowships Calendar. We have new workshops on Photo Skills For Beginners, and a One-Day Law School for Journalists. New events on Evan Gershkovich: Where Do We Stand After 100 Days, and The Future of U.S Government Data – A Conversation with the Producers. And new fellowships at ProPublica, Mongabay, the Evening Standard, The Independent, Social Streets, Google and Poynter.

Over the past few weeks we’ve included close to 50 listings in each edition, which apparently is too many for a single newsletter. I’m looking at different options for creating a shareable calendar so we can continue to expand, so if anybody has suggestions for cloud-based calendars, I’d greatly appreciate it! 🙏

In other news, Meta and Google will begin to restrict news on their platforms after the Canadian parliament yesterday passed its Online News Act. The bill will force the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Google to compensate news publishers for linking to their sites, and follows a similar law passed in Australia in 2021. Of course, I like the idea of news organizations and journalists being paid for their work, but I’m skeptical at how much of an effect the bill will actually have. A recent NiemanLab article, for example, showed how the Twitter referral rate to typical news organizations has dropped from “tiny to tinier” in recent months. We’ll see how Big Tech responds.

Okay, some quick housekeeping and then we’ll get out of here!

Be sure to check out Tuesday’s new journalism jobs update, with new openings at the likes of ABC News, BBC News, CBS News, Eurosport, Investopedia, Sky News, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and USA Today. Also featured are my highlights of the brand new 2023 Digital News Report, courtesy of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

I’m also starting to aggregate internship programs ready for the fall. If you’re a current intern, internship coordinator/recruiter, or just know of a program I should feature, please fill out this quick Google Form and we’ll add it to our list!

And lastly, take advantage of our free seven-day trials for paid subscriptions so you can try-before-you-buy. See you next week! ❤️ 👋

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☀️ June ☀️ 🆕

🆕 Beyond Snapshots: Photo Skills For Beginners

Topics will include basic elements of photography, best practices for photojournalism and beginner-level editing. The event will end with a question-and-answer segment. This session will help the uninitiated move their photography skills beyond the snapshot.

  • Type: Training
  • By: Society of Professional Journalists
  • Where: Remote
  • When: June 28 | 7-9pm Eastern Time
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

News Associates Workshops

If you’re interested in a career in journalism, News Associates’ free, hands-on workshops will give you a glimpse into the industry and their award-winning NCTJ training. Whether you’re just starting out or thinking of a career change, these practical sessions are suitable for those looking to get into news, sport, online or broadcast journalism.

  • Type: Training
  • By: News Associates
  • Where: In-Person (UK) and Remote
  • When: June-August
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

The Impact Report: Summer 2023

Impact has been at the heart of ProPublica’s mission since they began publishing nearly 15 years ago. Their reporters dig deep into corruption and breaches of the public trust, knowing that a sustained spotlight on injustice has the power to spark real-world change. In this free, virtual event, ProPublica invites you to hear directly from its reporters about how some of their recent investigations came to be — and what happened after publication.

  • Type: Event
  • By: ProPublica
  • Where: Remote
  • When: June 28 | 7pm Eastern Time
  • Registration

Webinar on Social Media Journalism

Social networks allow journalists to reach hundreds of thousands of people and become their own medium for disseminating content, editorials, investigations. Learning to use them effectively is increasingly important, and requires the development of new skills and new points of view. This webinar will discuss the possibilities and challenges that social networks are putting before the world of journalism.

  • Type: Event
  • By: JournalismFund Europe
  • Where: Remote
  • When: June 28
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2023

CIJ23 offers a mixture of talks, demos and hands-on classes designed to equip journalists and anyone interested in investigations with up-to-date investigative methods and tools. Topics covered include financial journalism, data journalism (hands-on), Freedom of Information Act requests, environmental investigations, investigative methodology and more.

  • Type: Conference
  • By: The Centre for Investigative Journalism
  • Where: London, UK
  • When: June 28-29
  • Cost: From £110
  • Registration

Covering the Jobs Report

What’s happening in the job market? Even the experts don’t have a clear answer. The nation’s monthly employment report may soon be the best indicator to judge whether the U.S. economy has entered a recession and whether the Fed is succeeding at its inflation fight. This webinar will help you better understand the data you can find within the jobs report, what to keep an eye on for a possible slowdown and how to tell a story of one of the most complex labor markets in many workers’ lifetimes.

  • Type: Event
  • By: SABEW
  • Where: Remote
  • When: June 28 | 1-2pm Eastern Time
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Spotlight on Health and Climate Change: Exploring the Health Voice in Climate Policy

This Lancet webinar explores how health voices can be better heard in climate negotiations by discussing the benefits and mechanisms of bringing a louder health voice into the climate policy arena and examining why the health voice remains relegated to the sidelines — with at best a single day of events, instead of being a fundamental and central feature that underlies all climate policy. Their expert panellists will share knowledge and perspectives on various aspects of the interplay between health and climate, such as activism, engaging future generations, and influencing climate policy. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session.

  • Type: Event
  • By: The Lancet
  • Where: Remote
  • When: June 29 | 9am Eastern Time/2pm UK Time
  • Registration

SPJ News Journalists

Ten student journalists will be selected to cover presentations and events at the SPJ national convention, #SPJ23 in Las Vegas. The SPJ News team includes three professional journalists who serve as mentors and guide the students during the convention. The program gives student journalists the opportunity to cover sessions, panels, keynote speakers and other events at the convention. 

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is a joint initiative that invites the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on the themes of migration, diversity and social inclusion. By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ recognizes youth as powerful agents of positive social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions.

Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant Application 2023

This grant aims to tell visual stories about and by photojournalists from historically underrepresented communities. Photojournalists are invited to submit proposals for stories that focus on and explore the systemic and underreported issues in our communities, including but not limited to racial justice, climate change, environmental justice, gender equality, and human rights. Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant is extended to photojournalists worldwide, with a preference for journalists working within their own local communities. 

Fund for Women Journalists

The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, the first funding initiative of its kind, supports journalists and journalism projects including, but not limited to, professional development opportunities, investigative reporting and media development initiatives led by women and nonbinary people.

🌻July 🌻

2024 duPont Columbia Awards

The duPont-Columbia Awards honor outstanding reporting across platforms without defined categories. The duPont screeners and jury look for outstanding journalism in the public service, evidence of commitment to important stories and innovative storytelling. Essential criteria includes breadth and resources devoted over a period of time.

NABJ Conference 2023

This year’s convention will attract industry leaders, innovators, and influencers in journalism, media, technology, business, government, community service, health, arts, entertainment, academia, and more.

AI Accountability Fellowships

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

Above the Fray Fellowship

The Above the Fray Fellowship is designed to give a promising journalist the opportunity to tell global stories from underreported regions. The selected individual will spend five to six months filing on-air and online stories for NPR. Applicants should combine the depth of traditional journalists with the technical innovation of new media and have between five and seven years of professional experience. 

🆕 Newsroom Leadership Programme

This 15-month programme is designed for people at the beginning of their journalism career who are interested in attaining senior journalism jobs. Gain experience in commissioning and editing articles and managing in-house team members and citizen journalists. Learn about onpage seo, website optimisation, data analytics and developing a strategy to grow audiences. Deepen your skills in long-form writing including interviews, opinion, reviews, and long-form research features.

🆕 The Club of Rome Communications Fellowship

The fellowship is a five-month mentoring programme aimed at increasing the diversity of voices covering sustainability issues and supporting early-career communications professionals who are from underrepresented communities and regions. It will be a remote placement with the successful fellow working from their home environment and with one trip to meet members of The Club of Rome team.

The Bertha Challenge

The Bertha Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the fifth Bertha Challenge: 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.

🆕 Aziz Foundation Apprenticeships

The Foundation works with organisations in industries where Muslims are traditionally underrepresented to deliver apprenticeship opportunities. These provide a valuable opportunity for scholars to develop their skills and gain useful industry experience.

2023 Media Fellowship Information

The Media Fellowship program provides journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the complex, intertwined network of factors that affect health and well-being and the inadequacy of a health framework that focuses on disease. Media Fellows can play an important role in translating research findings and analyses for a range of audiences, combining data with stories that inform the public and engage policymakers in order to change attitudes. 

Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship

The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship provides an unrivalled opportunity for an exceptional early career journalist: a nine-month fellowship with Durham University including undertaking an investigative project from inside a newsroom which could be in London, New York, or Toronto. The Fellow will be mentored by editors at Reuters or other media partners while being overseen by Durham University and having access to University academics and research resources.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: £4,444/month (salary) + £1,250/month (living costs)
  • By: University of Durham
  • Where: London, New York or Toronto
  • Registration Deadline: July 10

Demystifying Newsrooms: Building Trust Through Transparency

Explore innovative methods for building trust and connection with your audience in this insightful webinar from Trusting News. Join for an enlightening webinar that will uncover novel ways to connect with your audience, clarify misassumptions, and create a more engaged community around your journalistic work.

  • Type: Event
  • By: Trusting News
  • Where: Online
  • When: July 10 | 2-3:15pm Eastern Time
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

A.I. and Photography

Artificial intelligence has gained a foothold in photography and design, with new software and services such as Adobe's Firefly, but its use is also growing in image editing. To help photographers and media pros who work with photography learn more about A.I. and its role in imaging, hear from Robert Pless, professor of computer science at George Washington University who works with visual computing.

  • Type: Event
  • By: The National Press Club
  • Where: Washington, D.C.
  • When: July 12 | 12pm Eastern Time
  • Registration

🆕 Evan Gershkovich: Where Do We Stand After 100 Days

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russian security services March 29, 2023 while reporting in Russia and has been held in a Moscow prison ever since. His detention has now been extended until at least Aug. 30. This briefing will examine the first 100 days of Evan’s detention.

  • Type: Event
  • By: The National Press Club
  • Where: Washington, D.C.
  • When: July 13 | 11am Eastern Time
  • Registration

2023 Online News Association Conference

ONA’s annual conference gathers the world’s most engaging minds in digital media for an unparalleled blend of learning, networking and inspiration. Attendees represent news outlets from across the globe, local news startups, technology companies, universities and journalism support organizations. Journalists, technologists, media executives, entrepreneurs, journalism funders, changemakers, educators and students will all find plenty to enjoy.

The SPJ Freelance Fellowship

The 2023 SPJ Freelance Fellowship will support up to three independent journalists attending SPJ’s annual conference Sept. 28-30 in Las Vegas. SPJ23 will include more than 50 training sessions, and the fellowship provides convention registration; $250 stipend; $500 supplement for travel and lodging for those attending in person from outside the Las Vegas area; and one ticket to the SPJ President's Awards Banquet.

Festival International De Journalisme

The International Journalism Festival is about 150 events, organized around thematic debates, meetings with journalists and guests of the Festival, educational workshops and relaxation activities, exhibitions and screenings to see, without forgetting the Festival junior for budding young journalists.

  • Type: Conference
  • By: Festival International De Journalisme
  • Where: Couthures-sur-Garonne, France
  • When: July 14-16
  • Registration

🆕 Climate Journalism Award

The award will promote and recognise exceptional climate journalism that adopts an innovative or original story telling approach, encouraging journalists to prioritise reporting on climate-related issues. The five categories include: Data, Storytelling & Solutions, Visualisations, Investigative Reporting, and Emerging Talent.

USC Data Fellowship

This Data 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 a major investigative or explanatory health reporting project in the months that follow.

🆕 One-Day Law School for Journalists

This is an intensive program designed to support journalists and others in the media who face the challenge of reporting on the court system without a law degree. While this program was designed for those in the media, all are welcome to attend.

  • Type: Training
  • By: Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts
  • Cost: Free
  • Where: Remote
  • When: July 18 | 9:30am-3:30pm Eastern Time
  • Registration

🆕 The Future of U.S Government Data – A Conversation With the Producers

Join for a program session with the heads of the statistical agencies, featuring Vipin Arora, Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Robert Santos, Director, United States Census Bureau; William Wiatrowski, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics; and moderator Rebecca Baker, Editor-at-Large, Tax Insights and Commentary, Bloomberg Industry Group.

  • Type: Training
  • By: SABEW
  • Where: Washington, D.C.
  • When: July 18 | 3:10-4:30pm Eastern Time
  • Registration

Newsletter Professionals Meetup

Join the ONA to talk about the best engagement strategies for newsletters. At this event, you’ll meet other journalists and hear from peers in fast-paced lightning talks about what is working for them, what they’ve learned and how they are experimenting with reaching and engaging communities via newsletters.

  • Type: Event
  • By: Online News Association
  • Where: New York
  • When: July 18
  • Cost: $10-$25
  • Registration

🆕 Misinformation Student Fellowship

The Google News Initiative and Poynter have partnered to launch a student fellowship program focused on combating mis- and disinformation in communities. Fellows will work in local newsrooms on projects aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation and promoting digital literacy at the community level and among the younger generation.

🏖️ August 🏖️

National Center on Disability and Journalism Awards

The professional prize is supported by a gift from Katherine Schneider, a retired clinical psychologist. Schneider, who has been blind since birth, established the award to help journalists improve their coverage of disability issues, moving beyond “inspirational” stories that don’t accurately represent the lives of people with disabilities.

Associated Collegiate Press Advisers Academy

Collegiate advisers face challenges like never before — budgets, technology and administrative obstacles — all while supporting student journalists covering breathtaking change. Over three days, a team of some of the nation’s top advisers will help their fellow advisers navigate the year ahead.

  • Type: Training
  • By: Associated Collegiate Press
  • Where: Washington, D.C.
  • When: August 4-6
  • Cost: $209-$339
  • Registration

🆕 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visual Journalism Fellowship

ProPublica is looking for a creative, empathetic and ambitious visual journalist to join their editorial team as the inaugural Diamonstein-Spielvogel visual journalism fellow, a position that honors Paul Steiger, ProPublica’s founder emeritus. Over two years, this fellow will expand their investigative reporting skills by conceptualizing and producing photography across platforms, collaborating on ProPublica’s in-depth investigative projects and pitching and executing independent visual stories. Their work will help ProPublica expand beyond traditional narrative formats and engage diverse audiences who would be less likely to read long-form journalism.

🆕 Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship

This program will provide opportunities for journalists from biodiversity hotspots in tropical countries to report on critical environmental issues, gaining valuable training, experience, and credibility that will help them advance their careers in journalism and communications.

Creative Freelancer Training Programme

'ASPIRE' is a FREE 12 week creative freelancer training programme for aspiring photographers, filmmakers, web developers, and graphic designers. The programme includes several informative workshops that address topics such as networking, dealing with difficult clients, time management, organisational skills, tax and bookkeeping. Additionally, specialist workshops on photography, film, web development and graphic design are also included.

2023 NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists National Convention

Join more than 600 journalists, news executives, communications professionals and educators for the 2023 NLGJA.

IRE Freelance Fellowship

Created in 2008, the fellowships are awarded for project proposals which demonstrate impact, breadth and significance. Proposals for books, documentaries, cable series and other long-form projects are eligible. Proposals that deal with whistleblowers, business ethics or privacy issues will be given priority. It is intended to support work that will primarily be published or broadcast in the U.S. and in outlets where the primary audience will be at least a part of the American public.

The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant

Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years of age. Aidan Sullivan (then Sunday Times picture editor) was determined to build something positive from such a tragic loss and along with Ian’s family and friends created this grant. The judges are looking for a photographer and project that uses exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography to address an important issue and/or related to a human condition.

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