Non-SEJ Environmental Journalism Fellowships and Workshops

AAAS Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship
This paid summer internship is for undergraduate students who are deeply committed to diversity and interested in pursuing journalism as a career. It takes place at the Washington, DC headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science magazine, the largest interdisciplinary journal in the world, under the guidance of award-winning reporters and editors. Includes travel to D.C. Living accommodations and expenses are the responsibility of the intern.
Deadline: Jan 5, 2024

Above the Fray Fellowship
Above the Fray, a radio fellowship in conjunction with NPR, is the keynote program of the John Alexander Project. The 5-6 month fellowship is for journalists with 5-7 years' experience who are ready to report internationally. For the 2023 round, pitch an under-reported story from anywhere in the world. You'll spend about two months in the field, with additional time prepping and editing at NPR in Washington, DC.
Deadline: Jul 1, 2023 (As of 2024, application dates will be announced on a rolling basis, with dates varying year to year. Sign up for updates.)

Alfred Friendly Press Partners Fellowships
In partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism, has historically offered six-month opportunities include a General Fellowship for early-career professional journalists from developing countries and the TRACE Investigative Reporting Fellowship. In 2024, Alfred Friendly Press Partners is planning a month-long training program at the Missouri School of Journalism for journalists in exile in the U.S. The program is looking to build skills and resiliency in these areas: Security, Legal, Journalism and Climate.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2024

Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowships
The Alicia Patterson Foundation awards fellowship grants of $40,000 for 12 months and $20,000 for six months (includes covering costs of travel and research costs) to working journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations. Open only to U.S. citizens who are full-time print journalists, or to non-U.S. citizens who work full-time for U.S. print publications, either in America or abroad. Includes reporters, writers, editors and photographers. Must have five years of professional print experience, not necessarily consecutive. Full-time freelancers are welcome. An additional Cissy Patterson fellow specializing in either science or environmental journalism will be added. No special application is needed. All fellows applying for the Alicia Patterson fellowship and applications that deal with science or the environment will be considered for this additional fellowship.
Deadline: Oct 1, 2024

Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program
This International Center for Journalists' program offers outstanding young media professionals (age 21-40) from the United States, Canada and Germany an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries. Open to U.S., Canadian and German journalists who are employed by a newspaper, news magazine, broadcast station or news agency, and to freelancers. Applicants must have demonstrated journalistic talent and a strong interest in North American-European affairs. German language proficiency is not required, but it is encouraged. For North American fellows, a cash stipend covers living expenses during the two-month fellowship in Germany. Participants receive cash for travel expenses (or travel vouchers for transatlantic flights), and the program also pays living expenses during the orientation in Washington, D.C.
Deadline: Mar 1, 2024

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Media Fellowships
The Media Fellowship program of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada offers up-and-coming and established journalists the opportunity to spend time in Asia, researching and preparing stories. The program aims to help Canadian journalists to become better informed about this dynamic part of the world in order to write and broadcast insightfully on Asia and the Canada-Asia relationship. The Foundation will award up to three fellowships valued at up to $10,000 each. The Media Fellowships are a component of the Foundation's Research Grants Program, funded through the proceeds of an endowment established by the Government of Canada.
Deadline: Sep 23, 2024

The Bertha Challenge
This non-residential paid fellowship opportunity is for investigative journalists and activists to spend a year deep-diving into one pressing social justice challenge. The next Bertha Challenge will begin in Jan 2025 with a focus on farming and the climate crisis. The fellowships offer income for each Bertha Fellow for one year, project funding, access to a Connect Fund and more.
Deadline: Jul 12, 2024

Bill Lane Center for the American West Media Fellowship
Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West offers a single media fellowship with a $7,500 stipend for three months' work. The grant will fund a journalist illuminating crucial issues about the region. Fellowships provide opportunities for journalists working in all kinds of media — newspapers, magazines, radio, television, online, multimedia, video, film, data visualization, mapping, and books — to visit Stanford and interact with researchers, scholars and students, while developing or working on a project of their own design to spur new coverage and understanding of the American West.
Deadline: Oct 14, 2024

C&EN Editorial Fellow
Each year, a budding science writer gets the chance to hone his or her craft at Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, at their Washington, DC, headquarters. As a paid C&EN editorial fellow, you'll work alongside reporters, observing and participating in the process by which research findings become news. You'll get to fine-tune your ability to convey complex technical subjects to a diverse range of chemical professionals, and you’ll develop multimedia pieces to accompany the stories you write. Begins around June annually, for six months, with flexible start and end times.
Deadline: Feb 19, 2024

Canadian Journalism Foundation Fellowships
CJF annually provides fellowship opportunities for Canadian journalists. The 2024 fellowships include the CJF Black Journalism Fellowship Program for early-career Black journalists and the CJF-CBC Indigenous Journalism Fellowships, for early-career Indigenous journalists to explore an issue of interest while being hosted by CBC News for one month at its Indigenous Unit in Winnipeg.
Deadline: Jan 26, 2024

CBC Indigenous Pathways to Journalism
CBC's paid, full-time, 9-month learning and development opportunity supports seven First Nations, Inuit or Métis candidates to hone their skills as storytellers in CBC newsrooms, one each in Regina / Saskatoon, Toronto (CBC Radio), Toronto (CBC Kids), Winnipeg, Halifax, Iqaluit / Yellowknife / Whitehorse and Vancouver from September through June.
Deadline: Aug 5 and 12, 2024 (by location)

Columbia Energy Journalism Fellows Program
The Energy Journalism Fellows (EJF) is a program of the Center on Global Energy Policy within Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The program seeks to educate journalists about the various disciplines associated with the energy sector, including policy, markets, finance, climate change, technology and geopolitics. Moreover, it introduces participants to a variety of leading sources who can help inform their reporting on this vital topic. The program is free to journalists, including transportation and lodging for those who need it. The 2024 seminar takes place in New York City, June 11-14.
Deadline: Mar 1, 2024

The Daily Yonder's Rural Reporting Fellowship
This paid fellowship is geared toward any emerging professional or college student eager to sharpen their journalistic craft or build a portfolio of published work, especially those who embody the growing diversity of rural America. Fellowships take place each fall, spring and summer, lasting for an initial term of 12 weeks, with the opportunity for extension depending upon the fellow’s availability and newsroom needs. Fellows are able to work from anywhere in the United States. For an in-person experience, there are offices and core staff in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Knoxville, Tennessee, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota and Roseburg, Oregon.
Deadline: rolling

Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships in Journalism and Trauma
This Fellowship, a program of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, is designed for senior and mid-career journalists who wish to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury, and improve reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. Fellows attend a week-long seminar program at Columbia University in NYC, including briefings by leading experts in the trauma field and in-depth discussions with journalist colleagues. Fellowships are open to print, broadcast and online and reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years of journalism experience. The next Fellowship program will be held Jul 30-Aug 5, 2024 at Columbia University in New York City.
Deadline: Feb 21, 2024

Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellowships
The annual RJI Fellowships are for individuals or organizations with an innovative journalism project idea that could also benefit the industry. Projects might include devising new strategies or models to solve a problem, building new tools, creating a training workshop/program or building resources for journalists. The eight-month program for individuals offers a residential option at the Missouri School of Journalism (up to $100,000 stipend), plus nonresidential and institutional options ($25,000 for the latter two).
Deadline: Feb 4, 2024

Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship
The International Center for Journalists' biennial Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship helps Latin American journalists improve their investigative reporting skills, either generally or in a specialty reporting area such as immigration, environment, science and technology or business. In 2023, the program begins with a webinar on disinformation and fact-checking best practices. Participants can then apply for a three-week, in-person study tour and newsroom attachment in the U.S.
Deadline: Sep 14, 2023

East-West Center's Senior Journalists Seminar
Launched in 2003, the annual SJS is an immersive 22-day dialogue, study and travel program intended to enhance media coverage and elevate the public debate regarding identity and religion’s role in and resulting impact on the public sphere, specifically as it concerns U.S. relations with Muslim majority regions. Designed for print, radio, broadcast, and online journalists from the U.S. and countries with substantial Muslim populations, with minimum 10 years' experience. 2022-23 joint program: March 8-29.
Deadline: 2024 TBA

Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship
U.S. journalists or editors who cover international news can apply for the Council on Foreign Relations' fellowship. Spend ten months full time in residence at CFR's headquarters in New York, engaging in sustained analysis and writing, expanding your intellectual and professional horizons, and participating in CFR's active program of meetings and events. $100,000 stipend plus travel grant.
Deadline: Mar 1, 2024

EGU Science Journalism Fellowships
The European Geosciences Union's annual competition is open to professional journalists interested in geoscience stories. The fellowships enable reporters to follow scientists on location to report on ongoing research in the Earth, planetary or space sciences. The EGU funds innovative proposals to report on geoscientific research not yet in the public sphere. Fellows receive up to €5000 to cover expenses related to their projects.
Deadline: Jun 17, 2024

European Journalism Fellowships
Since 1999, several fellowships are awarded annually to conduct research at the Journalisten-Kolleg of the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Free University of Berlin). The program enables participants to network with professional colleagues from Eastern and Western Europe and the United States and provide them with the opportunity to take a two-semester leave from their professional positions and spend a sabbatical year at the Freie Universität widening their knowledge while pursuing their research project. German language proficiency is required. 
Deadline: May 15, 2024

Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
The intensive, fully funded FASPE Journalism program in professional ethics and ethical leadership annually takes fellows to Germany and Poland to examine the actions and choices of German and international journalists in covering and supporting Nazi policies. The 2025 program takes place Jun 20- Jul 4.
Deadline: Jan 2, 2025

The Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship
The U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics invites applications for one of ten $10,000 reporting grants for journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics. Open to journalists worldwide.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2024

Global Investigative Journalism Conference Fellowships
The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is held every two years. In 2023, it was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sep 19-22, with more than 150 expenses-paid fellowships available to both established and promising journalists in developing and transitioning countries, and for journalists from disenfranchised communities, to participate in-person.
Deadline: Feb 28, 2023

Grist Fellowship Program
This program is designed to provide newsroom experience for early-career journalists who have a demonstrated interest in environmental and climate journalism and media. The one-year fellowship pays $55,000, and includes health benefits and a company laptop for the duration of the fellowship. Fellows can be based anywhere in the U.S. but can work remotely if they choose. Four fellowships are available this round.
Deadline: Nov 26 for Mar 3, 2024-Feb 28, 2025

Heinrich Böll Foundation's Transatlantic Media Fellowships
Each year, the HBF usually sponsors journalists from the US, Canada and Europe for a five-day transatlantic trip to research stories relevant to the foundation’s work on various policy areas. Special consideration is given to journalists: from regional or local media outlets; from diverse backgrounds who can offer lesser-heard perspectives; and who may not otherwise have the opportunity to conduct transatlantic research. In 2024, two types of fellowships are available: on-the-ground fellowship (includes transatlantic travel) OR digital fellowship. Fellowships are offered in program areas including climate and energy policy, among others.
Deadline: Mar 15, 2024

High Country News Fellowships
HCN in Paonia, CO annually offers up to three full-time, paid, 12-month remote fellowships for early-career journalists to further their skills and build their clips. Applicants must reside in Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington or Wyoming.
Deadline: Oct 27, 2024 for Jan-Dec 2025

ICFJ's Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists
This International Center for Journalists fellowship program sends U.S. minority journalists overseas for up to two weeks to cover stories that resonate with their local communities. ICFJ brings the selected fellows to Washington, D.C., for a comprehensive orientation before travelling to the country of their choice. Costs for travel, lodging and interpreters are included. Open to English-speaking minority journalists working at a U.S. news organization or as freelance journalists in the United States. Stories need not be published in English only.
Deadline: Feb 13, 2020 extended to Feb 18. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

ICFJ News Corp Media Fellowship for Digital Innovation
The International Center for Journalists, News Corp and The Wall Street Journal are offering English-speaking journalists from around the world an opportunity to sharpen their digital journalism skills, as well as support to develop data- and/or digitally-driven projects. To be considered for the fellowship, journalists must participate in two half-day webinars in April and receive one of five news innovation grants.
Deadline: Mar 24, 2024

Ida B. Wells Fellowship
This one-year fellowship, honoring the pioneering African-American activist and investigative reporter, promotes diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters of color who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences and interests to their work. Fellows receive $25,000, travel and other costs, editorial guidance from a dedicated editor at Type Investigations and more.
Deadline: Mar 12, 2023. In 2024, the program is on pause.

IJA Indigenous Journalism Fellowship
The Indigenous Journalists Association's annual fellowship is for current Indigenous, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, First Nations and Métis college students, undergraduate and graduate, pursuing media degrees. Student fellows will work with mentors to produce coverage throughout the year.
Deadline: Mar 5, 2024

Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources
IJNR is an educational organization that promotes higher standards of news coverage of issues of the environment, natural resources, economic development and public health through expedition-style programs of learning and mentoring for journalists. IJNR provides field experiences at significant sites with expert speakers, so that journalists can gain a deeper understanding of the context of these complex issues. IJNR awards expenses-paid fellowships to working reporters, photojournalists, writers, editors and producers, including some independent and freelance journalists. In addition, some fellowships are awarded to students enrolled in professional programs of journalism and the environmental sciences.
Deadlines: Various. Check their program page.

IRE Freelance Fellowships
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) provides cash awards to assist independent journalists with investigative projects that will be published primarily in the U.S. and in outlets where the primary audience will be at least a part of the American public.
Deadline: Sep 23, 2024

IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship
This International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) fellowship gives academic and professional opportunities to advance the reporting skills of women and nonbinary journalists from any country who focus on human rights and social justice. During this seven-month fellowship, the selected journalist will have the chance to complete research and coursework at MIT’s Center for International Studies and participate in internships with media outlets including The Boston Globe and The New York Times.
Deadline: Apr 21, 2024

IWMF Gwen Ifill Mentorship Program
This eight-month International Women's Media Foundation virtual program for women and nonbinary journalists from underrepresented backgrounds is designed to address the lack of diversity in leadership positions across newsrooms in the United States. Fellows are paired with mentors and learn from media experts on a wide range of topics.
Deadline: Nov 7, 2024

Jefferson Fellowships for Journalists
Founded by the East-West Center in 1967, the Jefferson Fellowships promote better public understanding of the United States and Asia and Pacific through dialogue with professional colleagues and experts at the East-West Center in Hawaii, followed by a reporting tour to cities in Asia or the U.S. Open to working print, broadcast, and online journalists from the U.S. and Asia Pacific. The East-West Center believes Asia-connected fellowships are becoming increasingly important for American journalists. The Jefferson Fellowships are supported by a grant from The Freeman Foundation. The 2024 fellowship takes place Dec 1-18; details and application).
Deadline: Jun 13, 2024

Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism
The annual Kiplinger Fellowship, located within the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, focuses on the reporting of the most pressing issues of our time. Each year Kiplinger welcomes a distinct group of journalists from specialized fields of reporting as its fellows. Utilizing top trainers and experts in the field, it will prepare the journalists to more fully understand these topics to enhance their coverage. The first fellowship (2022) focused on climate change, the 2023 fellowship focused on Covering Political Discourse and Saving Democracy; 2024 is on Immigration and Migration. In coming years, the fellowship will address social justice, global pandemics, wealth inequities and poverty, human trafficking and opioid abuse.
Deadline: Nov 27 for April 14-20, 2024

Knight International Journalism Fellowships
The purpose of the Fellowships program is to improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the year-long program sends international media professionals to countries where there are opportunities to promote reliable, insightful journalism that holds officials accountable. The non-profit International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) administers the Knight International Journalism Fellowships. Fellows build skills and enhance the standards of independent media in these key regions: Asia/Pacific, Eurasia/Former Soviet Union, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Candidates must be fluent in the language of the region where they are deployed and should have at least 10 years' experience in journalism or related fields such as media-business management. Fellowships are open to any nationality for assignments of up to a year. The program may create Fellowships designed to take advantage of the skills of qualified applicants or to respond to specific local needs identified by the Fellowship candidate or local partner (including environment related).
Deadline: ongoing

Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford
Based at Stanford University in Northern California, the Knight Fellowships support diverse journalists from around the world who are creating solutions to journalism’s most urgent problems. Fellows take classes September through May in any area of Stanford that interests them. Open to U.S. and international journalists working in news organizations, independent journalists, journalism entrepreneurs and journalism innovators with minimum five years' experience. Includes Stanford tuition, stipend of $125,000 and health insurance.
Deadline: Dec 4, 2024 (international); Jan 15, 2025 (U.S.)

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT
Mid-career US journalists with a minimum of three years' experience in reporting science, medicine, environment or technology for the public are selected for an academic year at MIT, attending courses and participating in weekly seminars with top researchers. Applicants must be full-time reporters, writers, editors, producers, illustrators, filmmakers, or photojournalists, either freelance or on staff. This includes work for newspapers, magazines, television, radio and digital media. There are no educational prerequisites. Professionals working in public information, public relations, the trade press, government or academia are not eligible. $85,000 stipend, help with relocation and other benefits, including basic health insurance for each fellow and their family.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2024

Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships
Each year the Knight-Wallace Fellowships at the University of Michigan summon journalists to think boldly about their craft and enhance their skills to meet the needs of a changing industry. Full-time journalists (or those with the majority of their work in journalism) with five years' experience, currently working in any media, may apply for the in-person academic year Fellowships, designed to broaden perspectives, nurture intellectual growth and inspire personal transformation. $85,000 stipend.
Deadlines: Dec 1, 2024 (international); Feb 1, 2025 (U.S.)

Korea-U.S. Journalists Exchange
This annual exchange is co-sponsored by the East-West Center, Korea Press Foundation and Pacific Century Institute to increase public understanding of the two countries and their relationship. The program sends six to eight Korean journalists to the United States and six to eight U.S. journalists to South Korea to meet with government and business leaders, academics, non-governmental organizations and other members of the community. Open to working print, online and broadcast journalists in the U.S. and Korea with a minimum of five years' experience.
Deadline: May 31, 2024

MacDowell Fellowship
MacDowell in New Hampshire, which provides time and space for artists to work on creative projects, has expanded its support for journalists by providing additional residencies and project funding of up to $2,500 in addition to financial aid for accepted artists engaged in long-form journalism projects. Fellowship consists of exclusive use of a private studio, accommodations and three prepared meals a day for two weeks to two months. No residency fees. Financial assistance is available to nonfiction writers in residence based on need.
Deadlines: Sep 10, 2024 for Mar 1-Aug 31, 2025; Feb 10, 2025 for Sep 1, 2025-Mar 1, 2026

MBL Logan Science Journalism Program
The Logan Science Journalism Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory provides journalists with fellowships, enabling them to observe and participate in the scientific process by working closely with investigators carrying out research, and with graduate students learning the latest research methods. The interaction between journalists and scientists is a two-way street: The journalists gain a deeper familiarity with details of the science and the way scientists think and do their experiments, and conversely, the scientists learn the influences and constraints that shape the way science is reported to the public. Sharing the experience with journalists from other parts of the country (and the world) and other branches of the media is an additional program benefit. Staff or freelance broadcast or print journalists are eligible. A basic knowledge of biological principles is advantageous, but applicants with advanced degrees in biology or extensive laboratory training are not encouraged. All Fellows will participate in one of two intensive hands-on courses at MBL in Woods Hole, MA, May 18-28, 2025: Biomedical Research or Environmental Research. Fellowship support covers travel, room, board and course fees.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025

McCloy Fellowships on Global Trends
The American Council on Germany's McCloy Fellowships allow American and German experts from journalism (and other sectors) to research and assess the most pressing topics on the transatlantic agenda while engaging with their counterparts overseas, such as equity and social justice, urbanization, climate change and sustainability, digitalization, public health, as well as financial concerns such as inflation, trade and global supply chains. $7,000 stipend covers transatlantic airfare and domestic travel, as well as room and board, for a minimum of 21 days. American applicants need not be fluent in German, although some background in that language is helpful. German fellows visiting the United States should have a basic knowledge of English. The ACG also has other fellowship opportunities that are open to journalists; please see the ACG's website for details.
Deadline: May 1, 2024 extended to Jun 1

McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
The bi-yearly McGraw Fellowships provide experienced journalists with the funds and editorial support needed to report in-depth stories on critical issues related to U.S. business, finance and the economy. You needn't be a business reporter to apply. Many McGraw Fellows have been generalists, or cover other beats such as health care or the environment. No residency is required; McGraw Fellows work from their own offices. Open to freelance journalists, as well as staff reporters and editors working at a news organization. Five years professional journalism experience is needed. Fellows receive $5,000 a month for up to three months.
Deadlines: Mar 31 for Spring 2025; Oct 6 for Fall 2024. Time-sensitive projects will be considered on a case-by-case basis outside of the deadline periods.

The Mesa Refuge
Journalists, essayists, economists, screenwriters, naturalists, authors of memoirs, and other writers who need solitude essential to creative work may apply for a session at The Mesa Refuge, a two-week residency program for environmental writers, in Point Reyes Station, CA. Open to both experienced and emerging writers who are focused on “ideas at the edge” of nature, social justice and economic equity. Travel and food not included.
Deadline: Nov 1 for all 2025 residencies

Metcalf Institute's Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists
Metcalf Institute's annual workshop takes place at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, a leading marine science research campus. The 26th annual workshop, June 3-8, 2024, is for full-time journalists to learn more about research and topics relating to climate change science, impacts, adaptation and justice.
Deadline: Feb 12, 2024

Michelle Lang Fellowship
Early-career journalists can apply for this paid, virtual fellowship, dividing the year between working for the National Post and the Calgary newsroom of Postmedia, which produces the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun. Learn the differences in reporting for a major metro market and for a national audience, and deliver a special project on a topic of primary importance to Canadians.
Deadline: Oct 13, 2023

Mineral School Residencies for Writers
The Mineral School in Washington state annually hosts residencies for writers and visual artists in their historic school house near Mount Rainier. During 2024-2025, eight fellowships are offered so writers and artists may attend residency at no cost (find details on the Submittable application form). Otherwise, one-week residency costs $450 and two-week residency costs $900. 2024-2025 call and FAQ.
Deadline: May 31 for Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 residencies

Missouri School of Journalism Summer Workshop
This annual summer workshop is for high school students interested in expanding their journalism skills and learning from top journalism educators and professionals on the Missouri School of Journalism campus. Improve your writing, interviewing and storytelling skills; discover techniques for audio, podcasting and video; and learn tools for being a good investigative reporter. The 2024 workshop takes place June 23-28.
Deadline: May 13, 2024

MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowships
These four-month nonresident fellowships support freelance or staff journalists associated with U.S. local/regional newsrooms in developing a high-impact news project that connects local perspectives, values and priorities with climate change science and solutions. Receive scientific, design and financial support.
Deadline: Oct 14, 2024

Mongabay Internships
Mongabay offers a six-month internship program, which primarily involves writing environmental news stories for its affiliated news site – Mongabay.com. Develop your writing and interviewing skills from home by writing six news stories on a variety of conservation and environment topics, with training, mentoring and partial payment (for the final four of the six articles).
Deadline: Nov 28, 2023 for 2024 internship (Jan 1-Jun 30). The internship program has been postponed until further notice. Mongabay won’t be opening applications for 2025.

Mongabay's Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program
Mongabay's six-month, twice-yearly, remote program will support up to 12 young and aspiring journalists from the world's biodiversity hotspots — six at their global English bureau and six at their Spanish-language bureau. The fellowship provides opportunities to report on critical environmental issues, gaining valuable training, experience and credibility that will help you advance your career in journalism and communications. Open to anyone from a low- to upper-middle income tropical country. No educational prerequisites. Monthly stipend of $500 USD.
Deadlines: Feb 10 and Aug 10, 2025

Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship
This fellowship aims to empower a new generation of filmmakers exploring the burgeoning field of psychedelics. Apply for one of three $10,000 Student Fellowships or one of two $25,000 General Fellowships.
Deadline: Oct 30, 2024

National Humanities Center Fellowships
Fellowships (academic year or one semester) are awarded to scholars who have demonstrated achievement in the advanced post-doctoral study of history, languages and literature, and other fields of the humanities. The Center also accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. Scholars should be engaged in work significantly beyond the revision of a doctoral dissertation. A limited number of designated fellowships for scholarship concerning nature, environmental history or ecological concerns may be available. Fellowship stipends are individually determined. The Center provides travel expenses for Fellows and their dependents to and from North Carolina.
Deadline: Oct 3, 2024

The National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The year-long fellowships are open to U.S.-based early-career journalists interested in covering any or all of the three fields. Fellows will participate in workshops and other events held at the annual Science Writers, Environmental Journalism and Health Journalism conferences, as well as receive training, networking, mentoring, new sources and story ideas — while allowing them to stay at their jobs. Independent journalists will be eligible for project support stipends. A collaboration of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) and the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Deadline: Feb 23, 2024

National Tropical Botanical Garden’s Environmental Journalism Program
The NTBG's five-day Environmental Journalism Program in Hawaii, May 12–18, 2024, provides specialized working journalists in broadcast, print and online media much-needed information about tropical ecosystems, providing deep background in tropical ecology to enhance the accuracy of reporting on science and environmental issues. The focus is immersion and not advocacy.
Deadline: Feb 21, 2024

New America's Fellows Program
New America invests in thinkers — journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts — who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day. Fellowships begin in September 2024 and run through May 2025. annually. $15,000-$30,000 stipend provided and you may stay in your current job, coming together for two cohort gatherings during the fellowship year, each lasting2-three days and held in Washington, DC.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2024. 2025 applications open Nov 15.

Negri First Amendment Institute
The New England First Amendment Coalition annually hosts this tuition-free investigative journalism program for 25 working journalists within New England. A limited number of scholarships are available to cover hotel and travel expenses, if necessary to attend.
Deadline: Aug 23 for Oct 20-22, 2024

New Horizons Travel Fellowships
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing offers Travel Fellowships, of up to $1,200 each, to cover the costs of attending the annual New Horizons in Science Briefing for Journalists/Science Writers meeting which brings together top-rank scientists and leading science writers for an in-depth look at seminal developments in science, medicine and technology that are likely to make news in the coming months. The fellowships are intended primarily for journalists from publications and broadcast outlets that do not routinely cover major science meetings or employ a full-time science writer. Freelancers with a demonstrated interest in science writing are also eligible. If requested, CASW will also assign a veteran science writer to each fellow to serve as mentor and to help ease his/her way through the program.
Deadline: Sep 10 for ScienceWriters2024 (CASW and NASW), November 8-11, Raleigh, N.C.

Nieman Fellowships for Journalists
The Nieman Foundation selects up to 12 U.S. and 12 International journalists for Nieman Fellowships each year. All fellows come to Harvard for two full semesters to pursue a course of study of their own design. Nearly every class at Harvard College and in the graduate schools is open to the fellows (and their spouses), who spend their nine-month appointment broadening their interests or deepening their insight into their field of specialization. Applicants must be full-time journalists with at least five years of journalistic experience. Open to full-time staff and freelance journalists who work in all media, including print, broadcast, photography, film and the web. All prospective fellows must speak, read and write English fluently. Fellowship includes stipend of $85,000 (U.S. only) plus housing, childcare and health insurance allowances. International fellows must make separate financial arrangements.
Deadline: Dec 1, 2024, for International; Jan 31, 2025, for US applicants

Nova Institute for Health’s Media Fellowship
This Media Fellowship for US-based print, broadcast, and digital journalists aims to increase public understanding of the complex, intertwined connections between the health of people, places and the planet. The Nova Institute welcomes projects that recognize and/or examine the political, historical and social dynamics that have led to health inequities experienced by the BIPOC community and people who are medically underserved such as refugee, migrant and immigrant populations; people with disabilities; etc. Stipend of $100,000 plus travel expenses.
Deadline: May 28, 2024

NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship
Natural Resources Defense Council's Rewrite the Future, in partnership with the Black List, CAA Foundation, NBCUniversal, and the Redford Center, will award $20,000 to three writers to support revisions of a feature screenplay or pilot that engages with climate change in a compelling way. Receive creative support and mentorship from an established screenwriter with an interest in climate storytelling.
Deadline: Dec 5, 2024

O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism
Backed by the resources of Marquette University and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, O'Brien Fellows spend nine months researching, reporting and writing the stories they care most deeply about — stories with the potential to change policies and improve lives. This fully funded fellowship allows newsroom professionals to do the best work of their careers on issues of vital importance while they also mentor the next generation of journalists.
Deadline: Jan 19, 2025

One World Media Fellowships
Annually, One World Media selects fellows from around the world who are working on stories from the global south. Receive year-long support through one-on-one mentorship, a reporting grant of £1000 and workshops, all within an engaging community of peers and alumni. Applicants must be from and based in a global south country. Submissions encouraged from underrepresented groups (people of color, ethnic groups, women, LGBTQ+, or people with disabilities).
Deadline: Mar 21, 2024

The Open Notebook Early-Career Fellowship Program
This annual part-time, remote, 12-month fellowship program is for early-career science journalists anywhere in the world with less than three years of regular professional science writing experience. Work with a mentor to plan, report and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook. Cash stipend.
Deadline: Oct 31, 2024

Orion Environmental Writers' Workshop
This annual workshop, hosted by Orion Magazine and the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, is a longstanding, unique opportunity for participants to connect with leading writers and editors, learn more about environmental writing, and renew, illuminate, and deepen their relationship with place. The 2024 workshop takes place June 16-21 in Rhinebeck, NY. Tuition fees apply.
Deadline: March 15 (early bird); May 1 (final), 2024

The Peace Studio Fellowship
The Peace Studio Fellowship annually awards $10,000 to five artists and five journalists (US-based) who are committed to transformative social change through their work. Includes the Peace Studio curriculum and an all-expenses-paid kick-off retreat.
Deadline: Jun 16 for the September 2023-2024 program

PEN America's Emerging Voices Fellowship
This virtual five-month mentorship program is for U.S.-based early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing world, including Black writers and those who identify as Indigenous, persons of color, LGBTQ+, immigrants, writers with disabilities and more.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2024

ProPublica Fellowships
ProPublica offers a variety of fellowships throughout the year, ranging anywhere from three months to a year. All of them are paid positions. Some of these fellowships are offered only occasionally, others are recurring. One aim is to bring journalists from a broad array of social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds into journalism, including African Americans, Latinos, other people of color, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. ProPublica is committed to diversity and especially encourages members of underrepresented communities to apply. The September-June Emerging Reporters Program provides a $4,500 stipend per semester, plus mentoring and trips to investigative journalism conferences, to five minority students who work or want to work at college journalism outlets — newspapers, websites, radio stations or TV stations.
Deadlines: vary

Rainforest Investigations Network Reporting Fellowships
The Pulitzer Center's RIN offers one-year, full-time, paid remote fellowships to harness investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration in investigating the causes driving industrial-scale deforestation in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions: Amazon, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia.
Deadline: Dec 31, 2024

Report for America: Join the Movement!
Report for America Corps Member Journalists are part of a movement to strengthen communities, and our democracy, through local journalism that is truthful, fair, fearless and smart. If you are an emerging journalist with internship and newsroom experience or an experienced journalist looking for a new opportunity to serve local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities, complete the interest form here or email  recruitment@reportforamerica.org. 

Reuters Institute Journalist Fellowship Programme
These three- or six-month fully funded fellowships at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, are for journalists and editors with a minimum of five years' experience to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth.
Deadline: Feb 19, 2024

Richard C. Longworth Media Fellowships
These fellowships, a collaboration between the Pulitzer Center and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, aim to promote international reporting by Chicago and Midwestern journalists. One or two fellowships of $10,000 to $20,000 will be awarded in this round.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2025

RNS/IA Religion Journalism Fellowship
This Religion News Service (RNS) and Interfaith America (IA) fellowship, Sep 2024-May 2025, aims to develop: 1) future religion news journalists by deepening their understanding of religious expression in individual lives and diverse communities and 2) skills specific to covering religion, belief, faith and spirituality. $4,000 stipend, mentoring, expenses-paid trip to the annual conference and more.
Deadline: Jul 17, 2024

R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship
This one-year fellowship was created to reflect the importance that the late Jim Travers attached to his years reporting for Southam News from Africa and the Middle East and the guidance he provided as an editor for journalists. He believed Canadians deserve firsthand, in-depth coverage of important stories outside our borders. The fellowship finances a significant foreign reporting project by a Canadian journalist or non-Canadian with valid work permit (staffer, freelancer or graduate student) working in any medium. Up to $25,000 stipend covers travel, reporting and research expenses.
Deadline: Jan 13, 2025

RJI Fellowships
The annual Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellowships are for individuals or organizations with an innovative journalism project idea that could also benefit the industry: a 12-month residential option at the Missouri School of Journalism (up to $100,000 stipend), plus eight-month nonresidential and institutional options ($25,000).
Deadline: Feb 4 and 7, 2025

Rosemary's House Residential Writing Retreats
Rosemary’s House in Greece offers three types of retreat programming: residential workshop retreat (multiple dates), individual tutorial retreat (Oct 2-9, 2024) and generative storytelling retreat (Oct 15-22, 2024). Tuition includes food, drink and shared lodging (private lodging available for additional cost). A limited number of scholarships are available each year. Note: SEJ members receive priority application review and a 200-euro credit toward a successful application; contact sej@sej.org for the code to use on your application.
Deadline: rolling

RTDNF Fellowships and Scholarships
The Radio Television Digital News Foundation offers scholarships for outstanding students and fellowships for young professionals (<10 years experience in the field) pursuing careers in radio, television, or online news. Both the Michelle Clark Fellowship and N.S. Bienstock Fellowship are given to promising minority applicants. Jacque I. Minnotte Health Reporting Fellowship is awarded to a television or radio reporter or producer for excellent health or medical coverage. The Vada and Col. Barney Oldfield National Security Reporting Fellowship is given annually to a reporter or producer in radio or television news to help them cover national defense and security issues.
Deadline: Jan 11, 2024

Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellowship
The Knight Science Journalism Program, in partnership with health, science and medicine publication STAT, offers this nine-month paid fellowship for early-career US journalists, which aims to diversify the ranks of science and health journalists and foster a more inclusive and comprehensive coverage of science.
Deadline: Apr 26, 2024

Sierra Magazine Editorial Fellowship
This six-month paid fellowship offers early-career journalists experience in magazine publishing, with an emphasis on writing and reporting, fact-checking, research and story cultivation. There are two sessions per year: winter/spring (January through June) and summer/fall (July through December). Alums have gone on to work for Mother Jones, Nat Geo, AZ Republic and NPR, among other outlets.
Deadline: Apply for Summer 2024

Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship
Early-career journalists may apply for a nine-month fellowship with Durham University including undertaking an investigative project from inside a newsroom in London, New York or Toronto. Includes mentoring by editors at Reuters or other media partners, stipend and access to University resources.
Deadline: Jul 15, 2024

Solutions Journalism Network's Journalists of Color Fellowship
This nine-month fellowship, Sep 6, 2023-May 31, 2024, is for ten mid-career U.S. based journalists who are interested in editorial management. The program is specifically designed to support journalists of color, with at least five years of experience, who want to move into their first journalism leadership role. $6,500 stipend.
Deadline: Jul 17, 2023

States Newsroom's Capital Reporting Fellowship
States Newsroom's paid fellowship is for those who believe that journalism can be a powerful force for social good. This summer program places students and new journalists in newsrooms across the country. Preference given to applicants whose identities are underrepresented in journalism, such as women, Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC), differently abled, first generation college students and/or members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Deadline: Oct 31, 2024

Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowships
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) annually awards fellowships to both professional journalists and students of outstanding ability who have been accepted for enrollment in U.S. graduate-level science writing programs to help defray the cost of tuition and other program-related expenses. The fellowship honors the memory of Rennie Taylor, a science writer for Associated Press, whose estate provided funds for the establishment of the American Tentative Society, and Alton Blakeslee, former science editor of AP, who served as ATS's longtime president. Awards of $6,000 are available to fellows selected on the basis of a national competition. Science writing is defined as writing about science, medicine, health, technology and the environment for the general public via the mass media.
Deadline: Mar 18, 2024

Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Deepen your understanding of environmental science and policy, and enhance your journalism skills at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Open to U.S. journalists (reporters, editors, producers and freelancers) working in print or broadcast with a minimum of five years' full-time experience. Prior experience covering the environment is not necessary. Fellows will take classes, attend special seminars, take field trips, and engage in independent study at a university renowned for its environmental science and policy studies. The program provides a $80,000 stipend. It also covers tuition and fees, paid sick leave, bus passes for use locally and regionally, and attendance at the annual SEJ and NASW conferences.
Deadline: Mar 1 annually

The Uproot Project Environmental Justice Fellowship
To help underrepresented journalists shed light on undercovered topics, this fellowship will offer funding up to $2,000 to seven journalists to pursue reporting projects (highlighting how the climate crisis and key environmental issues of our time are linked with other forms of inequity) over the course of a year.
Deadline: Mar 1, 2024

USC Annenberg Data Fellowship
The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism annually invites journalists to apply for this fellowship. The Oct 7-10, 2024 online training provides an opportunity to transform your reporting by learning how to “interview the data” as if it were a human source. Fellows receive a grant and mentoring to work on an ambitious reporting project.
Deadline: Jul 10, 2024 extended to Jul 31

USC Annenberg National and California Health Journalism Fellowships
The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's National Health Journalism Fellowship is open to print, broadcast and multimedia journalists  (staffers or freelancers) around the country. The Fellowship is not only for health reporters, but for all reporters with an interest in social issues, whether they're education, government, environment, criminal justice, social services or immigration specialists or general assignment reporters. Also offered is a California fellowship program (in Los Angeles) providing interactive workshops and discussions on California health challenges and solutions. Both fellowships include reporting grants of $2,000-$10,000 and five months of mentoring by veteran journalists. Preference given to reporters pursuing collaborative projects between mainstream and ethnic news outlets.
Deadlines: Dec 17, 2024 for the California program (Mar 18-20, 2025); TBA for the National program (Summer 2025).

Vermont Law and Graduate School's Summer Media Fellowships
VLGS's Environmental Law Center offers a comprehensive curriculum of environmental and animal law courses. The 2024 Summer Media Fellowships include a free two-week course in the environmental, food/ag or animal law topic of your choice, a stipend, free housing, free books, a tuition waiver and plenty of access to faculty. Family members are welcome. Summer Session courses offered vary year to year. All courses are taught by national and international experts in their fields. Media fellows also take part in the summer session's brown bag lunch series, and deliver a 45-minute, informal lecture on an environmental, food and agriculture, or animal law and policy topic of their choosing.
Deadline: March 29, 2024

Wake Forest Mellon Environmental Justice Journalism Fellowships
The Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative, June 24-28, 2024 in Winston-Salem, N.C., will welcome 4-6 early to mid-career journalists (staff or freelance) as the inaugural class of Wake Forest Mellon Environmental Justice Journalism Fellows. Stipend and expenses included.
Deadline: Mar 8, 2024

Watchdog Writers Group Book Fellowship
The Watchdog Writers Group offers a $50,000 annual stipend, for up to two years, for journalists writing a book in the public interest. The non-residential fellowship program also pairs each fellow with a student at the Missouri School of Journalism, who will help conduct reporting for the book. Apply here.
Deadline: May 1, 2024

WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship Program
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship Program takes place each fall and introduces science communicators to the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields of oceanography and ocean engineering. Through seminars, laboratory visits, and brief field expeditions, Ocean Science Journalism Fellows gain access to new research findings and to fundamental background information in engineering, marine biology, geology and geophysics, marine chemistry and geochemistry, and physical oceanography. The program is a one-week, residential experience open to professional science writers, producers, and editors working for print, broadcast, radio, and Internet media. The ideal candidates will have at least two years of writing, producing, or editing experience for a general-interest audience. Fellows receive a travel allowance, as well as room and board for one week.
Deadline: Aug 13, 2021; on hiatus — continue to check in 2024

Wilson Center Fellowship Program
The Wilson Center annually invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals who are interested in public policy to apply for its 9-month international residential Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. $90,000 stipend for the academic year (Sep through May).
Deadline: Oct 1, 2024