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Inside The Newsroom is back bigger and bolder than ever. Hundreds of new jobs, an updated Journalism Calendar, and new announcements. Check out what's new for 2024!

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Hello folks! Happy new year and welcome back! I sincerely hope everyone had a lovely holidays and a well-deserved break. I certainly did and I’m more than recharged and ready to get stuck into the long list of exciting things I have planned for this newsletter for 2024.

In today’s edition, we have a whopping 44 listings on our Journalism Awards, Events, Fellowships and Trainings Calendar through the end of January, with more than 60 more in the stable to add in the coming weeks. Today’s new additions include The New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship, Report For America’s 2024 Reporter Corps Application, and the International News Media Association’s webinar on Where News Media Is Going In 2024.

On Tuesday we’ll have a bumper update to the job board with more than 500 new journalism jobs and internships. We’ll also release our VERY FIRST Inside The Newsroom Salary Board, with more than 5,000 positions from the past 12 months to help you negotiate your next salary.

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🗓️ Awards, Events and Fellowships Calendar 🗓️

💵 Fellowships 💵

🆕 NYT Local Investigations Fellowship

The NYT is looking for reporters with a local story idea to investigate it under the guidance of Dean Baquet, The Times’s former executive editor, and a group of veteran investigative editors. The goal of the fellowship is to provide fellows the opportunity to learn the ways and means of investigative reporting from some of the best in the business. Fellows will be based in the communities where they are reporting and make periodic trips to the NYT’s offices for training and support. 

🆕 The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship

The fellow/consultant will engage with ICFJ program staff, project partners, and participating journalists to undertake several editorial tasks, including to identify, research, prioritize, and solicit potential donors, including but not limited to corporations, corporate and private foundations, associations, and individuals.

Too often journalists and media workers are threatened with legal action, solely for doing their job. This is a distinct threat to press and media freedom and so the MFRR offers paid support for legal representation, opinion writing and advice. As well as that, the MFRR offers support for legal reform movements to challenge laws that targets press and media freedom.

IRE/NICAR Fellowships

Investigative Reporters and Editors has a slew of fellowships and scholarships for various workshops and conferences, including its Data Journalism Bootcamp, and annual conferences.

A Writing Chance Grant

A Writing Chance is looking for 16 new fiction and non-fiction writers and journalists to be part of its 2024-25 cohort. 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 KSJ 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.

🆕 AAJA Scholarships

The Asian American Journalist Association has several scholarships available for journalists, including the White House Correspondents’ Association Scholarship, the Anna Chennault Scholarship, the Mary Quon Moy Ing Memorial Scholarship, and the Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship. Selection criteria includes academic and journalistic achievement, financial need, commitment to journalism and a sensitivity to AAPI issues.

🆕 O'Brien Fellowship In Public Service Journalism

O’Brien Fellows complete an in-depth reporting project of their choosing on a topic of state, regional, national or international interest over two academic semesters. Both remote and residential applications are accepted, but extra weight in the selection process is given to applicants ready to take up residency on campus at Marquette University.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: $75,000
  • By: Marquette University
  • Where: Milwaukee, WI
  • When: August 2024-April 2025
  • Deadline: January 19

🆕 JSK Journalism Fellowships

The Knight Foundation 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.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • Stipend: $95,000
  • By: John S. Knight Foundation
  • Where: Stanford University, CA
  • Deadline: January 24

🆕 Logan Science Journalism Program

This program offers science journalists, writers, editors, and broadcast journalists a chance to forget about story deadlines and immerse themselves in basic biomedical or environmental research. Room, board, course fees, and travel are covered for accepted fellows.

🆕 NPR Reflect America Fellow

NPR is seeking an early- or mid-career journalist to spend a year reporting on climate change and its impact on vulnerable people, particularly Indigenous communities across North America. The fellow will embed with NPR’s Climate Desk, where they'll pitch and report stories on one of the world’s most important beats. Fellows will work and learn alongside journalists at NPR and member stations whose award-winning stories reach millions of listeners and readers.

🆕 2024 Politico Journalism Institute

This training program will admit four undergraduate, graduate students, or recent grads interested in covering politics and policy at the state level. Training includes interactive sessions, panels with industry leaders, mentor pairings with Politico journalists and an opportunity for participants to have their work published. All costs for attending PJI States, including one trip to Washington, D.C. and local transportation in California are covered.

🆕 Canadian Journalism Foundation BIPOC Bursary

This bursary is open to a BIPOC student in their final year of a Canadian undergraduate journalism program. It’s designed to support students who have demonstrated strong engagement with the BIPOC community and a commitment to high journalistic standards.

🆕 Investigative Journalism Grants

These grants provide support for reporters to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact. Freelance journalists, staff reporters and media outlets are eligible for grants, and their investigations can be for print, online or broadcast stories, books, documentaries or podcasts.

🆕 Report For America Corps Member Application

Report for America helps local newsrooms report on under-covered issues and communities by placing journalists at news outlets throughout the country. They are seeking talented, service-minded reporters and photographers to apply. Applications are now open for more than 50 positions in newsrooms of all types — digital startups, daily and weekly newspapers, radio and TV stations, a wire service and more.

🆕 Joan Shorenstein Fellowship Program

This fellowship is designed to bring journalists, scholars, politicians and policymakers to the Shorenstein Center for a semester to work on a project with a tangible output, and engage with students, faculty, other fellows, and the broader Harvard Kennedy School community.

  • Type: Fellowship
  • By: Shorenstein Center at Harvard University
  • Where: Cambridge, MA
  • Deadline: January 31

🆕 Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation

This fellowship brings individuals to Harvard University to work on a specific course of research or a specific project relating to journalism innovation. Proposals from fellowship candidates may deal with any issue relating to journalism’s digital transformation. Examples include ideas for new revenue streams to fund journalism, the construction of new tools for reporting, or research into news consumption patterns.

  • Type: Fellowship with stipend
  • By: Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University
  • Where: Cambridge, MA
  • Deadline: January 31

🆕 Emerging Voices Fellowship

This fellowship provides a virtual five-month immersive mentorship program for early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world. Through curated one-on-one mentorship and introductions to editors, agents, and publishers, in addition to workshops on editing, marketing, and creating a platform, the fellowship nurtures creative community, provides a professional skill-set, and demystifies the path to publication — with the ultimate goal of diversifying the publishing and media industries. 

🧠 Events and Training 🧠

🆕 Poynter Beat Academy

Poynter’s Beat Academy delivers the latest knowledge that journalists need to cover critical topics of deep importance to their communities. Through engaging webinars that feature the nation’s leading journalists, experts and thinkers, this webinar series equips journalists with beat expertise, data know-how and excellent local and national sources.

🆕 Newsroom Safety Across America

The IWMF is launching a national journalism safety initiative to provide care for small newsrooms and journalists that lack the resources and knowledge to implement best practices and safety policies for 2024 and beyond. They will offer one- and two-day highly interactive in-person safety workshops to local and regional news outlets in battleground states and rural areas where newsrooms are grappling with ongoing safety challenges.

  • Type: Workshop
  • By: International Women’s Media Foundation
  • When: February
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Poynter-ACES Introductory Certificate in Editing

Distinguish yourself with the industry’s premiere editing certificate, where you’ll learn powerful techniques to help you and your organization achieve greater communications clarity; how to embrace accuracy and verification; ways to perfect your grammar, word use and style; and the skills to make you the kind of editor people are hungry to work with.

🆕 So You Want To Run A Podcast

Ever wondered about a career in audio journalism? Don’t miss this webinar with Sarah Ventre. Ventre has been in the journalism business for a dozen years. Her career includes working for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, Vox, Critical Frequency, Crooked Media, Campside Media, The African American Policy Forum, Center for Science and the Imagination, and The Moth. Her podcast, Unfinished: Short Creek, about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border, was named one of 2020’s top podcasts by The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and her reporting won an Edward R. Murrow award for journalistic excellence.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Society of Professional Journalists
  • When: January 8
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Where News Media Is Going In 2024

Issues this webinar will focus on include: Where will the application of GenAI over the next 12 months take the news industry?; To what degree is the pendulum swinging between reader revenue and advertising in the business model?; What does the rise in non-profit ownership mean for journalism and the products that emerge from news brands?

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: International News Media Association
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 10
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Satirical Strategies: Exposing Corruption With Humour

Hailing from Hong Kong, Chip Tsao is a seasoned journalist, author, and satirist known for his sharp wit and incisive commentary. With a career spanning over three decades, Tsao has made significant contributions to the world of journalism through his humorous yet thought-provoking approach to current affairs. Mr Tsao will be hosted in conversation by Director of Journalist Programmes, Mitali Mukherjee, a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
  • When: January 10
  • Where: Remote
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 The 2024 Iowa Caucus: What You Need To Know

In January 2024, the U.S. will turn its attention to Iowa, eager to parse the outcomes of that state’s caucus for indicators of what’s to come in the presidential primaries. And while many will be watching closely to see who emerges as the favored candidate, few outside of Iowa will actually understand the unique process by which the winners were chosen. Join The Guardian live from Iowa City as they set out to unpack the Iowa caucus: what it is, how it works, and why it matters.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: The Guardian
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 12
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Burnout & Stress: How Journalists Can Manage Both in 2024

Research shows various work-related stressors affect journalists’ mental health. Depending on their beats and work locations, as many as 59% of journalists experience symptoms of serious stress including the inability to concentrate or to sleep, as well as feeling on edge, numb, or angry. Join for a conversation focused on practical tips and effective methods for journalists and newsroom leaders to address stress and burnout.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: The National Press Club
  • When: January 17
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Six Years of #MeToo Reporting: What We've Learnt

Rosamund Urwin, media editor at The Sunday Times behind the Russell Brand scoop, reflects on six years of reporting since the #MeToo movement gained traction in 2017. What lessons have we learnt about how we investigate and report these stories, and the backlash that ensues?

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
  • When: January 17
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Covering the Campaign Finance System

Campaign finance reporting isn’t just a matter of looking at donors and spending reports; you’re covering a system of individual and institutional behaviors and relationships. In this webinar, you’ll discover new ways of thinking about money in politics and learn about ways to find great stories.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • When: January 17
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Fireside Chat and Q&A with OpenAI

The game-changing technology of AI, how consumer trends are changing, and the effect that Generative AI could have on the news industry is the focus of this webinar featuring James Dyett, head of platform accounts at OpenAI.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: International News Media Association
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 17
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Disinformation, Bias and Data Theft: Can AI Be Trusted?

AI has quickly transformed how we consume information, with deepfakes, doctored videos and harmful content travelling across the internet at rapid speed. The Guardian published its set of AI principles this year to guard against the dangers of bias embedded within generative tools. But are other organisations doing the same? Will the UK also follow the EU in regulating its advancement and use? And can we keep up with its unprecedented growth? In this livestreamed event, the Guardian’s global technology editor Dan Milmo and a panel of experts to explore these big questions.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: The Guardian
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 17
  • Cost: From £10
  • Registration

🆕 Strategies for Tracking Impact in Journalism Collaboratives

This webinar is designed to equip your collaborative journalism team with a straightforward, effective approach to impact-tracking. You'll learn to integrate diverse metrics from different newsrooms and unify your strategies for measuring audience engagement and impact. You'll gain insights on choosing the right strategies to track progress toward shared goals and developing a sense of ownership and new skills across your team.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Center for Cooperative Media
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 18
  • Cost: $5
  • Registration

🆕 Stories to Watch 2024

The challenge for 2024 is to understand how we can move those in power to make the necessary shifts toward a net zero, climate-resilient future. In WRI’s Stories to Watch 2024, WRI’s President & CEO, Ani Dasgupta, presents four key stories that help explain how to make these shifts. Each story hinges on whether leaders use their power to make life better for people, nature, and the climate — and the factors that influence them.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: World Resources Institute
  • When: January 23
  • Cost: Free
  • 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: January 25
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Election 2024: How To Use Poll Data to Accurately Inform the Public

As election 2024 gets under way, one thing is certain: Polling is poised to dominate media coverage for better or worse. But different polls and methodologies can create misleading results and media narratives that impact voter turnout. Knowing how polling organizations conduct their surveys is a key skill for accurately informing the public as the 2024 election season ramps up. Learn which polls to trust and which ones to question.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: The National Press Club
  • When: January 26
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Women in Journalism Workshop 2024

This is an annual workshop that focuses on challenges, accomplishments and issues specific to women in the journalism industry today. RJI want to help build safer, more diverse and innovative newsrooms to serve communities worldwide.

  • Type: Workshop
  • By: Reynolds Journalism Institute
  • Where: Columbia, MO
  • When: April 12-14
  • Cost: Free (volunteers), $50 (students), $75 (professionals)
  • Deadline: January 26

🆕 Anatomy of the Investigation: Recycling… Digging Into a System of Secrets

The Environmental Protection Agency says 32% of Americans are recycling, up from just 7% in 1960. But are those items really being recycled, or do they end up in landfills or incinerators? Join IRE for a discussion with journalists who’ve looked into this story with widely varying results and some tips on how you can do the story where you live.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • When: January 26
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🆕 Is the Conservative Party Finished?

In an effort to impress voters, Britain’s prime minister has reshuffled his cabinet, brought back David Cameron, and staged a showdown with the courts over the government’s highly controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Yet currently, polls show the Tories heading for political oblivion. As we head towards a general election, have the Conservative party run out of road after 13 years in power? If so, who might win the battle for control of a now bitterly divided party that is likely to follow any defeat? Join an expert panel, chaired by the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff, with the Guardian’s political correspondent Kiran Stacey and former special adviser to Sajid Javid, Salma Shah to explore a Conservative party in crisis.

  • Type: Webinar
  • By: The Guardian
  • Where: Online
  • When: January 29
  • Cost: From £10
  • Registration

🆕 Sports Journalism Workshop

Whether you’re just starting out or thinking of a career change, our practical sessions are suitable for those looking to get into news, sport, online or broadcast journalism. At the news journalism workshops our 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 30
  • Cost: Free
  • Registration

🏆 Awards 🏆

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 U.S. at the national, regional or local level.

  • Type: Awards
  • Prize: $25,000 (winner), $10,000 (five finalists)
  • By: Shorenstein Center at Harvard University
  • Deadline: January 10

🆕 International Photography Collaboration

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom photography contest aims to mobilise men for feminist peace. The theme for this year’s award is Men and Love in Times of War and Polarisation. Selected photographs will be exhibited online and in high visibility indoor and outdoor locations including potentially: the UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva, the EU, the African Union, and in many of the countries in which the project is implemented in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

  • Type: Awards
  • Prize: $1,000
  • By: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
  • Deadline: January 15

🆕 Mark of Excellence Awards

These awards honors the best in student journalism. In addition to physical awards and recognition, two awards carry cash prizes. Categories include Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best All-Around Student Newspaper; Best All-Around Radio Newscast; Best All-Around Television Newscast; Best All-Around Television News Magazine; Best Affiliated Website; Best Independent Online Student Publication; and Best Podcast.

🆕 Global Media Awards

INMA’s Global Media Awards rewards business practices that sustain news media and journalism. Across 20 categories, seven genres, and two audience segments, INMA aims to tell a story of creativity and aspiration for the unsung heroes behind news media’s renaissance in a complicated digital age.

🆕 2024 Amnesty Media Awards

The Amnesty International Media Awards celebrate excellence in human rights journalism and applaud the courage and determination of journalists and editors who put their lives on the line to tell important human rights stories.

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