DEADLINE: Bill Lane Center for the American West Media Fellowship

Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West has supported journalism about the West and its environment for more than a decade. We’re soliciting a new round of applications for our media fellowship, which provides a $7,500 stipend for three months’ work.

The application period for our 2025 fellowship will commence September 9, 2024, and we will accept applications through October 14, 2024. We will make our selection by mid-November 2024, with the expectation that journalists will publish their work in the spring of 2025.  While we can be flexible with this deadline to some extent, publication should happen no later than August of 2025. A plan to work with Stanford-based experts is not a requirement, but will ensure an application gets extra attention.

Criteria for acceptance:

• The work should examine a crucial aspect of the West, its land, its people, its history, and the impact of the forces that power its economies
• The applicant should have ties to a news organization which will guarantee serious consideration of publishing the work; the Bill Lane Center is not responsible for securing publication
• Publication should happen within six to nine months of the award, or by August 11, 2025
• The work itself could be one or could be any combination of the following: print or online articles, photography or photo essays, informational graphics, podcasts, video journalism, documentary films, fact-based graphic novels or graphic documentaries.

Details and application.