Deadline: October 1st 2018 midnight EST
The Fund for Investigative Journalism is proud to announce partnerships with four of the country’s most innovative journalism nonprofits for a yearlong fellowship program that aims to expand opportunities for diverse journalists in watchdog reporting, with an emphasis on journalists of color.
InsideClimate News ,
The Marshall Project and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting are joining FIJ in this important collaboration to train more investigative journalists and help draw focus to stories that might otherwise go untold.
The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting will play a supporting role by providing fellows with additonal training and support.
FIJ and its partners will select up to four fellows who will work with one of FIJ’s partner outlets to produce deeply reported investigations on climate change and the environment, social justice and the U.S. criminal justice system, and government accountability and the abuse of power.
Fellows will have access to reporting expertise and other resources offered by partner outlets. Each will get guidance from some of the industry’s best editors and investigative journalists.
Started 11 years ago as a two-person blog, ICN has grown into one of the largest environmental newsrooms in the country. ICN is committed to establishing a national reporting network, training the next generation of journalists and strengthening the practice of environmental journalism.
The Ida B. Wells Society is dedicated to increasing and retaining reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting. The organization, which is spearheaded by veteran journalists, also seeks to educate news organizations and journalists on how the inclusion of diverse voices can raise the caliber, impact and visibility of investigative journalism as a means of promoting transparency and good government. The Society is open to journalists of all races and backgrounds who support the mission of the organization.
For Enquiries:
For more information, contact FIJ Executive Director Sandy Bergo,
How to apply:
The application requires certain materials be uploaded, and applicants must answer a few questions. You may start the application and save your changes: It doesn’t have to be done in one sitting, it just has to be done by midnight, Oct. 1, 2018.
Here’s a rundown of what the application entails. If you gather your materials ahead of time, the application will take less time to complete.
Title
Enter a title for your submission. Keep it short and descriptive.
Grant proposal
Your proposal should be thorough and compelling. Be sure you are familiar with the mission and work of the partner news outlets with which you wish to work.
Start with a story summary not exceeding 100 words.
Then offer a narrative of no more than three pages to explain what your investigation aims to uncover, why the investigation is important, how you would go about it and why the story is groundbreaking. If the topic has received previous coverage, explain how your story is different.
Budget
Upload an estimated budget for your investigation. A $15,000 grant will be awarded to pay for travel, document fees, equipment rentals and other reporting costs. Any unused funds will serve as a personal stipend. To see a sample budget, visit http://bit.ly/sample_budget
Resume
Please provide a resume of no more than three pages.
Bio
Please supply a bio of no more than 100 words.
Two work samples
Accepted file types include text/document files (pdf, docx, doc, txt, rtf, odt, wpf, wpd); art/photography (jpg, tiff, gif, png, svg); audio (mp3, wav, aac, aiff, m4A, ogg, flac, wma); and video (mp4, avi, 3gp, webm, mkv, mov, mpg, flv, wmv, m4v).
Two reference letters
Enter the email addresses of your references. Each reference will receive an email with a link to upload a reference letter. Be sure to have your referrer whitelist submittable.com or check their spam folder to ensure they receive your reference request.
There will be other questions, including prompts for information that FIJ will use for tracking and administrative purposes.
Please do not finalize your application until you are completely finished! You can save your application as you go and come back to it, but once you press APPLY on the final page you will not have a chance to make changes
