Fellowships
2025 Fellowships (Updated 12/13/2024)
The Scripps Howard Fund: The Scripps Howard Fund is accepting internship applications for its nonprofit newsrooms program through Friday, Jan. 31. Scripps Howard Fund partners with 13 different Institute for Nonprofit News member newsrooms around the country to place dynamic interns into paid positions for 10 weeks during the summer 2025. You search the list of newsrooms here. Learn more about the internships at the Scripps Howard site.
Verite News Fellowship: Launched in fall 2022, Verite is a Black-led nonprofit news organization with a twofold mission to produce in-depth journalism that serves the whole community while training, developing and mentoring a new generation of minority journalists. The Verite Fellowship is designed for early career journalists who want to spend 12 months learning from a newsroom of passionate, dedicated journalists. Learn more at Verite News.
Golin PRep School Fellowship: Embark on a one-of-a-kind experience with Golin’s PRep School Fellowship. As a PRep School Fellow, you’ll collaborate with industry-leading executives, receive mentorship from some of the brightest minds in PR, and contribute to campaigns for award-winning clients. This is your opportunity to launch and grow your career with one of the top public relations agencies globally. You’ll experience an eight-week paid fellowship between June 4, 2025, and August 1, 2025, personalized mentorship, and much more. Learn more through Golin Careers.
Hearst Journalism Fellowship (deadline 1/6/2025)
If you have the skills, passion and determination to be a journalist of the future – a trained professional who knows a good story and who has the talent and confidence to tell it in a way that best imparts its relevance and importance to news consumers – the Hearst Fellowship might be perfect for you. The program consists of two 12-month rotations at Hearst’s top metro papers and websites. The program has produced dozens of successful journalists now working at Hearst newspapers and other top places around the country. Anyone can apply who has obtained a college degree by August 1, 2025, and has at least one year of journalism experience. All application materials must be received by January 6, 2025. Learn more through the Hearst Fellowship website.
Higher Ed Media Fellowship (deadline 2/1/2025)
The Fellowship currently focuses on issues related to postsecondary Career and Technical Education (CTE), with topics including data sourcing and analysis, best practices for covering underrepresented communities, and the intersection of postsecondary education and civic learning. Funding is awarded every year to early and mid-career journalists completing CTE reporting projects. As part of the program, Fellows will attend a symposium to build their knowledge and further develop their craft. Applications close Feb. 1, 2025.
Apply through the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award (deadline 2/19/2025)
The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award is a grant of $12,500 to support the work of a promising early-career nonfiction writer on a story that uncovers truths about the human condition. A panel of NYU journalism professors, outside writers, and editors will review the proposals. Finalists will be asked to take part in an interview online. The deadline to apply is Feb. 19, 2025. Apply through the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
MLB Digital Content Diversity Fellowship (deadline 2/1/2025)
The eight-month MLB Digital Content Fellowship is designed to attract early career candidates, including recent college graduates, and prepare them for roles in the Content Department and the baseball industry at-large with a full baseball season with the Content team. The Content Group has oversight of MLB.com, the official site of Major League Baseball, and all of MLB’s social media accounts. The Digital Content Fellowship Program features training, one-on-one mentorship from senior editors/reporters and seeks to create experiential learning opportunities in a professional environment. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2025. Apply through MLB.com.
Allbritton Journalism Institute – Reporting Fellowship (deadline 02/19/2025):
The fellowship offers aspiring journalists a two-year educational program that prepares them for careers as credible, non-partisan reporters in the nation’s capital or wherever their work may take them. Students learn core skills from respected professional reporters and editors in a classroom setting, and they gain real-world experience by working as reporters at AJI’s publication, NOTUS. Students are paid an annual stipend of $60,000 so that they can live in the D.C. area and devote their attention and energy to the fellowship. More information about the fellowship — including testimonials from current fellows and bios of AJI faculty and staff — can be found at aji.org, and you can read NOTUS here.
Local Investigations Fellowship: The Local Investigations Fellowship gives journalists the opportunity to produce signature investigative work focused on the state or region they’re reporting from that will be published by The New York Times and made available for free for co-publication by local newsrooms. This program is a one-year investigative reporting fellowship to develop the next generation of great reporters to do this essential type of accountability journalism at the local level. Fellowship applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Apply through the New York Times.
The Hearst Journalism Fellowship: If you have the skills, passion and determination to be a journalist of the future – a trained professional who knows a good story and who has the talent and confidence to tell it in a way that best imparts its relevance and importance to news consumers – the Hearst Fellowship might be perfect for you. The program consists of two 12-month rotations at our top metro papers and websites. Fellows are full-fledged journalists expected to make significant, valuable contributions in a variety of roles and platforms. Final deadline for all application materials is January 6, 2025. Apply through the Hearst Fellowship website.
Closed Fellowship Listings
FleishmanHillard: FleishmanHillard is a global integrated communications agency delivering transformational outcomes for some of the world’s biggest brands. Its Los Angeles office is seeking qualified candidates for the Alfred Fleishman Diversity Fellowship. Fellows contribute to client projects and gain practical experience in the field of integrated communications from some of the industry’s best counselors. The ideal candidate will work full-time (40 hours per week), starting in summer 2024. This is a hybrid role based in the Los Angeles office. The paid fellowships are 6 to 12 months in length and offer benefits, professional development opportunities and a mentor program. Apply through the FleishmanHillard careers portal.
Forbes: Forbes is recruiting for journalists to join its Editorial Fellowship, a twelve-month immersive training program for early career business journalists. Fellows will rotate through the newsroom to learn targeted skills specific to a Forbes career. The Fellowship will begin with a week-long business journalism bootcamp, a series of classes taught by top editors. Fellows will then rotate through the newsroom during a series of four, 3-month assignments in order to develop financial analysis, investigations, source development, and news reporting. Learn more about the Forbes Fellowship and apply through the Forbes careers site.
WETA Productions: The first one-year fellowship was created in honor of award-winning PBS NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill. The Gwen Ifill Fellow participates in the development and production off Washington Week and PBS News Weekend. The Fellow will also have the opportunity to work with digital and broadcast reporters and producers on story assignments and assist with research, pitching, reporting and production of stories that will be published on the PBS Newshour’s website and aired on Washington Week and PBS News Weekend. The second one-year fellowship was created in honor of award-winning anchor, reporter, author, Jim Lehrer, co-founder of PBS NewsHour. The Jim Lehrer Fellow participates in the development and production of the PBS NewsHour. For six months, the Jim Lehrer Fellow Fellow will be dedicated to daily production of the NewsHour, with primary responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Broadcast Coordinating Producer including research, gathering editorial information and video elements; copy editing; and assisting with scripts. For another six months, the Jim Lehrer Fellow will work closely with digital and broadcast reporters and producers, shadowing them on story assignments, including in the field, and assisting with research, pitching, reporting and production of stories that will be published on the PBS Newshour’s website and aired on the PBS NewsHour’s nightly show. Both fellowships are open to journalism majors who have graduated within the past 12 months. Apply for the Gwen Ifill Fellowship here. Apply for the Jim Lehrer Fellowship here.
Business Insider: The Business Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. As a real estate reporting fellow, you will aid in coverage of residential real estate, contributing slideshows, stories, and lists that appeal to Business Insider’s ambitious readers. Topics covered range from fascinating homes on the market to the real estate of the wealthy. The ideal candidate is a self-starter brimming with ideas who is willing to cold-call people for a quick comment and can produce camera-ready copy quickly. This role can be fully remote; however, fellows who are in LA, San Francisco, or New York are encouraged to come into the office twice a week. Recent grads are encouraged to apply. To learn more and to apply, visit the Business Insider careers page.
More Perfect Union: Launched in February 2021, More Perfect Union is an advocacy and journalism organization with a mission to build power for the working class. More Perfect Union is looking for a highly motivated and organized individual to join its team as an Editorial Video Fellow. In this role, you’ll focus on video editing support across the organization, with opportunities to be involved in other elements of production. This is a paid six-month fellowship. To apply, follow the directions on JournalismJobs.com.
The International Radio & Television Society Foundation (IRTS) is a great organization and I have done one of their faculty fellowship programs. They just opened their 2024 summer student fellowship for applications. It’s a 9-week, all-expense-paid fellowship in New York. You live in a dorm in Manhattan, and they place you in a full-time, paid internship with a top NYT media company. It’s open to all students and you do not need to be radio/TV focused. PR majors are welcomed too. Find out more on their website, https://irtsfoundation.org/academic-programs/irts-summer-fellowship-program/.
2023 AAJA Sports Scholarship, Fellowship, Internship Opportunities (deadline 1/30/2023)
NYC Media Industry Fellowship – Summer 2023 (posted 1/10/2023)
Frederick Douglass Global
The Wall Street Journal – Financial Reporting Fellowship in NEW YORK, New York (deadline Monday, Oct. 24, 2022)
The New York Times Corps (Posted 6/2/2022, available for multiple years and cohorts)
Applications are now open for The New York Times Corps, a first-of-its-kind talent pipeline program for college students to receive career guidance from Times journalists over a multiyear period.
Press release (includes link to FAQ and application)
Times Corps landing page and FAQ (includes link to application)
Application