JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS

Arthur F. Burns Fellowships
http://www.icfj.org/burns.html
Two month fellowship for US journalists to report from Germany for their news organizations.

California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships
http://www.californiahealthjournalism.org/
Two intensive three-day workshops for mid-career journalists (California only) whose news organizations commit to airing the resulting work.

Casey Journalism Center Fellowships
http://www.cjc.umd.edu/fellowships/index.html
Two and five day fellowships on covering children and families.

Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships
http://www.dartcenter.org/fellowships/index.html
Expense-paid fellowships to mid-career journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events.

German/American Journalist Exchange Program
http://www.rtnda.org/asfi/fellowships/gax.shtml
Two week travel fellowship to Germany for broadcast journalists only, "building bridges of understanding professionally and personally."

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fellowship1.html
Short term research fellowships for journalists in New York City. Term varies from one week to two months with stipend for travel, housing and expenses.

Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources
http://ijnr.org/programs/expeditions.htm
Week-long fellowship expeditions for journalists, all expenses paid.

Institute for Justice and Journalism
http://www.justicejournalism.org
Offers fellowships on covering border justice, racial justice, criminal justice; schedule varies.

International Reporting Project
http://www.journalismfellowships.org/
Gives U.S. journalists a chance to learn about international issues and to travel to any country in the world for an in-depth reporting project.

Knight-Bagehot Economics and Business Journalism Fellowships
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/admissions/programs/knight-bagehot/
Offers qualified journalists an academic year at Columbia University to enhance their understanding and knowledge of business, economics, and finance.

Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
http://www.knightcenter.umd.edu/
Located at the University of Maryland, offers fellowships for journalists to attend short seminars on a variety of topics.

Knight Fellowships at Stanford
http://knightfellows.stanford.edu/
Gives mid-career journalists an academic year at Stanford "to broaden and deepen their understanding of a changing world."

Knight International Press Fellowships
http://www.knight-international.org/
Sends journalists to foreign media organizations to lead training sessions.

Knight Public Health Journalism Fellowships
http://www.cdcfoundation.org/knight
Three-month fellowship for journalists with at least five years experience, held at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/
Mid-career program for experienced journalists who cover science, technology, medicine, or the environment. Fellows spend an academic year at MIT.

Knight-Wallace Fellowships
http://www.mjfellows.org/
Provides outstanding mid-career professionals the opportunity to indulge in a sabbatical year of study and reflection at the University of Michigan.

Lilly Scholarships in Religion
http://www.rna.org/scholarlilly.php
Pays up to $5,000 for tuition and expenses for any full time journalist to take a religion course at any U.S. or Canadian university.

Loyola Law School Journalist Fellowship
http://www.lls.edu/cjp/jls/
Free, four-day intensive seminar for journalists whose coverage requires an in-depth knowledge of the legal system. Held at Loyola in Los Angeles.

Metcalf Institute Fellowships
http://www.metcalfinstitute.org
Offers a science immersion workshop for journalists at the University of Rhode Island graduate school of oceanography. Also has a 10-month fellowship for minority journalists to study marine and environmental science.

National Arts Journalism Fellowship
http://www.najp.org/fellowships.htm
Journalists with at least five years of professional arts journalism experience may apply for a one-semester research fellowship at Columbia University.

Nieman Fellowships
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/
Journalists with at least five years of experience spend an academic year at Harvard. Each fellow is free to design an individual course of study.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/
Journalists can apply for travel grants for reporting projects throughout the world, with an emphasis on under-reported issues.

Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/mh_fellows_2008_09.html
Journalists with at least three years experience can apply for a $10,000 stipend to support a reporting project on mental health.

Science Journalism Fellowships
http://www.mbl.edu/sjp
Fellowships sponsored by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass; Toolik Lake, Alaska; and Palmer Station, Antarctica.

Shapiro Fellowships
http://smpa.gwu.edu/Faculty/ShapiroFellows/Inquiries/
Active journalists may apply for a part-time fellowship at George Washington University, typically for one semester.

Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism
http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/cej/
Offers journalists an academic year at the University of Colorado, with independent study expected to lead to a significant piece of journalistic work.

Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Science & Religion
http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/
Three week summer seminar at the University of Cambridge plus stipend for project work.

Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
http://www.wkconline.org/index.php
A partnership of USC/Annenberg and Berkeley, offers fellowships for seminars on a variety of topics, expenses paid.