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✍️ Journalism Awards, Events, Fellowships and Trainings ✍️ — December 1

18 deadlines to apply for before the end of 2023; 45 total calendar listings

✍️ Journalism Awards, Events, Fellowships and Trainings ✍️ — December 1

Hello folks! It’s that time of the week again…

This week we trimmed down the total number of listings to give you some more quality of quantity, based on what you guys are clicking on. That said, we still have 45 total listings broken down as follows: 23 fellowships/grants (10 new); 20 webinars/events (six new); and two awards (one new).

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As for this week’s news, we looked at NYT and WSJ journalists resisting calls to support a ceasefire in Gaza; The Guardian’s new privacy-friendly advertising product; how Bloomberg aims to bag 1 million subscribers; and Merriam-Webster’s 2023 Word of the Year.

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🆕 James B. Steele Fellow in Investigative Business Journalism

This fellowship was created for the 2024-25 academic year to nurture a new generation of business journalists and provide them with the sophisticated investigative skills and business savvy they need to protect and inform their readers. The fellowship targets early-career journalists who are looking to jump-start their career as business journalists and is open to applications from the U.S. and abroad.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: Biweekly
  • By: Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University
  • Where: Tempe, AZ
  • When: Fall 2024 - Summer 2025
  • Deadline: January 1, 2023

🆕 California Health Equity Fellowship

This fellowship starts with training week in Los Angeles and will provide interactive workshops and inspiring discussions by health policy experts, community health practitioners and leading journalists to help reporters understand how social, educational, economic and racial inequities — and access to health care — influence health and life outcomes. Fellows also are eligible to apply for five months of professional mentorship in engaged journalism and grants to support those creative efforts.

LAST CHANCE: USA Today

Election Reporting Fellowship Program

The USA Today Network’s statehouse reporting fellowship program expands the coverage of the country’s largest news publisher at a critical time as they serve audiences with local, regional and national election journalism.

  • Locations: Hartford, CT; Cheyenne, WY; Remote, U.S.; Salt Lake City, UT
  • Salary: $19.28-$21.41/hour
  • When: January 2 to December 27, 2024
  • Requirements: Has proven experience in a digital news environment filing accurate, concise, and clean copy on deadline; Robust understanding of what’s happening in state politics and across the country to create conversation-starting journalism; Infinitely curious and always has a story idea ready to go; Can manage time wisely, balancing short-turn stories with deeper investigations; Enjoys collaborating with editors and writers across the network on breaking news and special packages; Ensures coverage includes a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices; Upholds Gannett’s standards of journalistic rigor, accuracy, and fairness; Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and the minimum liability insurance required by state law.
  • Deadline: ASAP

Elections Opinion Writer, USA TODAY Network Election Team

  • Location: Remote, U.S.
  • Salary: $38.46/hour
  • When: January 2 to December 27, 2024
  • Requirements: Proven experience in a digital news environment filing accurate, concise, and clean copy on deadline; Robust understanding of what’s happening in politics and across the country to create conversation-starting journalism; Infinitely curious and always has a story idea ready to go; Can manage time wisely, balancing short-turn stories with deeper investigations; Enjoys collaborating with editors and writers across the network on breaking news and special packages; Ensures coverage includes a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices; Upholds Gannett’s standards of journalistic rigor, accuracy, and fairness; Has a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and the minimum liability insurance required by state law.
  • Deadline: Rolling

🗓️ Awards, Events and Fellowships Calendar 🗓️

💵 Fellowships 💵

Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists

This fund was designed to help women journalists by providing 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.

ABC News Fellowship Program

Are you an aspiring journalist ready to take your newsroom experience and skills to the next level? The ABC News Fellowship is a year-long rotational program designed to develop early career journalists and content creators from a diverse group of backgrounds. Spend a year rotating through a series of shows and platforms while mastering the editorial, production, and newsgathering skills crucial to success in the competitive, fast-paced field of multiplatform journalism.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Salary: $51,120-$70,290
  • By: ABC News
  • Where: New York, NY
  • Application

First Jobs Fund and Financial Assistance

Starting a new job in journalism can be expensive and challenging, especially if you’re burdened with debt from your studies. The Journalists’ Charity’s First Jobs Fund is designed to offer support as you start your career, helping you focus on what matters – being a great journalist during these challenging times. The cost-of-living crisis also means lots of journalists are struggling to get by, especially when the industry is still recovering from the challenges of the pandemic. If you’re finding it difficult to cope, they’re here to help with information, practical support, and financial assistance.

Empowering Journalists in the Digital Field

Six journalists from crisis areas will be invited to Berlin for a period of six months. Who can apply? Professional journalists, bloggers, media professionals and citizen journalists who are exposed to digital threats of any form; Experienced digital violence such as doxing or impersonation; Want to educate themselves about digital security in order to improve their personal security and the safety of their sources; Interested in passing on the knowledge acquired during the scholarship program to colleagues in their home regions and, ideally, already have some experience in teaching or other areas of knowledge transfer.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: €1,000/month
  • By: Reporters Without Borders
  • Where: Berlin, Germany
  • When: May to October 2024
  • Deadline: December 4, 2023

Foot in the Door Fellowship

Each year, the LA Press Club pairs five talented journalists from communities historically excluded from the media with newsroom veterans to actively work on securing a valuable work opportunity. More than a mentoring relationship, this partnership aims to figure out how to launch career dreams and take concrete steps together to get there

Paul Miller Washington Reporting 2024 Fellowship

For more than 35 years, the Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship has introduced rising D.C. reporters to the city they’re assigned to cover. In monthly sessions, fellows learn what it takes to cover the White House, Supreme Court, Capitol, Pentagon, Justice Department and other key government institutions.

JSK Journalism Fellowships

JSK is seeking journalists eager to explore, identify and test ideas for improving access to news and information people need to create and sustain robust democratic communities. You should apply if you: Want to grow as a journalist and leader and believe that your best work is ahead of you; Are ready to set aside current work responsibilities and dig into a 10-month journey of professional and personal exploration; and are committed to being in journalism.

Rory Peck Trust Training Fund

Safety training is vitally important for freelance journalists planning to work in hostile environments. The Rory Peck Trust Training Fund enables freelance journalists to gain the essential skills and knowledge needed to work in difficult and potentially dangerous situations. Launched in 2000, the fund has given hundreds of bursaries to freelance journalists, photographers, camera operators and filmmakers to allow them to take part in training with one of their trusted course providers. Courses teach them to assess risk and spot danger, handle a crisis, support others and give vital first aid.

🆕 CatchLight Global Fellowship

The CatchLight Global Fellowship addresses a pressing need in the visual storytelling industry by supporting innovative leaders. CatchLight seeks visionary candidates eager to lead creatively, leveraging visual communication's power for social impact.

🆕 Journalist Bursary Programme

This opportunity offers two aspiring journalists funding for the NCTJ course with News Associates in London, as well as a contribution towards living expenses. The programme aims to provide a pathway for emerging voices in sports journalism.

Michael Jacobs Travel Chronicle Scholarship 2024

The scholarship, which reaches its tenth edition with the purpose of encouraging travel writing, will award $10,000 for a travel book or article project about Latin America or Spain, to be published in Spanish or English.

Health Innovation Journalism Fellowship

This fellowship is aimed at supporting in-depth, high-quality reporting on health innovation topics through professional fellowships. Throughout the duration of the fellowship, selected fellows will strengthen their skills to report on the latest developments in health and medicine.

Kim Wall Memorial Fund 2024

This grant will fund women or non-binary reporters covering subculture, broadly defined, and what Kim liked to call “the undercurrents of rebellion.” Kim wanted more women to be out in the world, brushing up against life, and the Kim Wall Memorial Fund honors this legacy.

🆕 Future Perfect Fellowship

Inspired in part by the philosophy of effective altruism — but not beholden to it or any other movement — Future Perfect strives to shine a light on neglected stories that have, or will have, a profound impact on the lives of billions of humans and animals. Vox is hiring three fellows to help ensure Future Perfect is telling the most important stories to its audience and approaching those stories with nuance and discernment.

🆕 FASPE Journalism Program

FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. The program begins by examining the actions and choices of German and international journalists in covering and supporting Nazi policies, and then draws on this historical example to help fellows grasp their role and responsibility as individuals with influence in their communities and to lead them to identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing journalists and media institutions at large.

🆕 IRE/NICAR Fellowships

The Investigative Reporters and Editors have a slew of fellowships and scholarships to various workshops and conferences, including their Data Journalism Bootcamp, and annual IRE and NICAR conferences.

🆕 A Writing Chance Grant

A Writing Chance is looking for 16 new fiction and non-fiction writers and journalists to be part of A Writing Chance 2024-25. The scheme aims to open access to the writing industries for new and aspiring writers from working-class and lower-income backgrounds and for those who face barriers due to intersecting challenges.

🆕 Global Health Reporting Fellowships

Pulitzer Center health-related journalism focuses on global health inequities, system failures, food security, and more. Applicants should consider enterprising and underreported stories about U.S. and global health system failures. They’re interested in a wide range of topics, such as chronic illnesses, outbreaks and epidemics, reproductive health, and public health systems.

🆕 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program

The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT supports a global community of dedicated and thoughtful journalists specializing in science, health, technology and environmental reporting. They are looking for 10 fellows.

🧠 Events and Training 🧠

🆕 Tackling Disinformation During Elections

In this course you will learn tools to monitor election campaigns, and the most common types of election disinformation about candidates, political parties and the electoral system itself.

🆕 AI for the media and creatives

Is AI an exciting new technology that will enhance the creative process, or is it something that will take away our jobs? This panel of experts will answer what the future of AI means for the media and creative industry.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: National Union of Journalists
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 4, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Data, Stories, and Impact: The AI Revolution in Health Journalism

As part of the Health Innovation Journalism Fellowship, ICFJ is hosting a mini-series of virtual webinars that bring a global audience together to gain skills from leading experts.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: ICFJ
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 4, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 News Media and Technology: What We Need to Learn Fast

What matters in tech? What’s going on, what might it mean, and what will happen next? These are the questions in focus in this webinar with Benedict Evans, a leading writer and analyst on the intersection of technology and the real world who runs one of the most influential newsletters and podcasts on emerging technology trends.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: International News Media Association
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 5, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

How to Improve Your Reporting by Cultivating Diverse Sources

It’s long been a tenet of journalism that reporters are only as good as their sources. For that reason, many diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in newsrooms have focused on making sure that reporters are tapping a wide array of voices for their stories. Join this panel to hear actionable advice on how to improve the diversity of your sources on a deadline. You’ll also discuss whether editors and managers should track the use of diverse sources and learn more about the resources and databases that exist to help find new experts.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: SABEW
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 5, 2023
  • Registration

JournalismAI Festival 2023

JournalismAI is a project of Polis — the journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Join for their free conference that will hear from this year’s JournalismAI fellows, as well as conversations and case studies from the cutting edge of journalism and artificial intelligence.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: JournalismAI
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 5-6, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Navigating the AI and Machine Learning Policy Landscape for Health Journalism

As part of the Health Innovation Journalism Fellowship, ICFJ is hosting a mini-series of virtual webinars that bring a global audience together to gain skills from leading experts.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: ICFJ
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 6, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Gen AI and News Design — A Roundtable Discussion

Experience firsthand insights from experts at the intersection of design, local news and artificial intelligence.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Society of News Design
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 6, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Are Psychological Inoculations Against Misinformation Likely to be Effective at Scale?

Join Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Gordon Pennycook, Associate Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, for a discussion on the psychological impacts of misinformation.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Shorenstein Center for Media
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 6, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Misinformation, Disinformation and Mental Health

Discussion on mental health challenges, therapies, and associated misinformation, disinformation, and stereotypes led by Johnson & Johnson's Senior Director, Compound Development Team Leader, Neuroscience.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: NABJ
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 7, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Virtual Newsroom Visit to Alharaca, El Salvador

IPI’s Local News & Innovation Network is hosting a virtual newsroom visit to Alharaca, an independent El Salvador-based publication that works collaboratively at the intersection of journalism, art, academia, and new technologies. The newsroom visit is your chance to learn from their model as Alharaca’s team will provide valuable insights into their operations within a media landscape where independent journalists face increasing pressure.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: International Press Institute
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 12, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Artificial Intelligence in Journalism

This event is for journalists and journalism trainers who are keen to take advantage of the opportunities provided by generative AI but are also mindful about the implications to trusted journalism and quality standards.

  • Type: Event
  • By: National Council for the Training of Journalists
  • Where: London
  • When: December 12, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Managing Investigators: Protecting Your Team From Threats

Join IRE’s inaugural “Managing Investigators” lunch-and-learn webinar for a Q&A with McCurtain Gazette journalists, moderated by Kat Stafford. This management webinar series will continue in the spring and is free and open to any IRE member – especially those currently or aspiring to lead investigators.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 12, 2023
  • Registration

🆕 How News Media Advertising Teams Can Tackle the Sustainability Agenda

What sustainability means for the news media business is the focus of this webinar. The sustainability agenda is rapidly evolving across the globe, requiring news media businesses to think about an increasingly broad range of expectations from customers, suppliers, regulators, and shareholders — from net zero to nature, geophysical risk to greenwashing.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: International News Media Association
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 13, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

Beginner's Guide: Custom GPTs for Local News

This is a beginner’s guide to creating custom GPTs for local news publishers. It covers the following topics: What is a custom GPT and how is it different from ChatGPT?; How to set up and configure a custom GPT; Best practices and recommendations for setting up your custom GPT; Assistants API and automation; Additional resources and readings.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Center for Cooperative Media
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 13, 2023
  • Cost: $0-$15
  • Registration

The Lowdown on Taxes for Freelance Journalists

A conversation with Matt Apodaca, a managing partner in NorthPoint Tax, Wealth & Business Advisory. Matt is known for his mastery of advanced tax preparation and planning for individuals, small businesses and ex-patriates. He’ll talk about U.S. income tax planning and preparation for freelance journalists in all media, focusing on deductions and income exclusions to maximize net income while minimizing taxes.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Society of Professional Journalists
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 13, 2023
  • Registration

🆕 Video Monetization Opportunities for Journalism on YouTube

Join for an insightful webinar on navigating the landscape of Video Monetization Opportunities for Journalism on YouTube. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into the world of video monetization for journalism and learn from a seasoned expert.

  • Type: Training
  • By: International News Media Association
  • Where: Online
  • When: December 28, 2023
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 News Journalism Workshop

Whether you’re just starting out or thinking of a career change, this practical session is suitable for those looking to get into news, sport, online or broadcast journalism. At the news journalism workshops its editors will get you tackling a breaking news exercise and we’ll provide individual feedback on your stories.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: News Associates
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 4, 2024
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Data Journalism Bootcamp - Google Sheets + SQL

Attend this in-person bootcamp at the University of Missouri to learn everything you need to know about Google Sheets and SQL to enhance your data journalism.

  • Type: Training
  • By: Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Where: Columbia, MO
  • When: January 8-12, 2024
  • Cost: $500-$1,250
  • Registration

🆕 Radio Boot Camp

Sally Herships will introduce you to the basic principles and craft of reporting for the ear. Learn how to write with and for tape, how to use your voice as a tool and about the importance of the host intro, audio interviewing essentials and the basics of editing audio tape using Hindenburg.

  • Type: Workshop
  • By: The Centre for Investigative Journalism
  • Where: London
  • When: January 13-14, 2024
  • Cost: $325
  • Registration

🏆 Awards 🏆

The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

Established in 1998, these awards recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the work of the awards' Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake, J. Anthony Lukas, who died in 1997. Four awards are given: two Work-In-Progress, Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize.

🆕 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

This annual award honors investigative reporting that best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics. While the subject can address issues of foreign policy, a submission qualifies only if it has an impact on public policy in the United States at the national, regional or local level.

  • Type: Awards
  • Prize: $25,000 (winner), $10,000 (five finalists)
  • By: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
  • Deadline: January 10, 2024

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