Fellowships

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 — Applications are now open for the 2025 to 2026 cohort of the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) reporting fellowship. The reporting fellowship allows professional journalists to spend up to a year working […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 14, 2025 — Journalists can apply for the Strengthening Public Accountability for Results and Knowledge (SPARK 2.2) Project, an investigative reporting fellowship by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR). The investigative reporting […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 15, 2025 — The Dataphyte Biodiversity Reporting Fellowship is now open for applications, inviting Nigerian journalists passionate about environmental and biodiversity reporting to apply for an immersive data-driven storytelling opportunity. Designed to strengthen […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 14, 2025 — The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has launched a Health Journalism Fellowship to strengthen evidence-based public health storytelling across the continent. This new track under the […]

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 — Journalists, creators and communicators passionate about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) can apply for this fellowship. The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025 offers a media fellowship […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 14, 2025 — The African Union (AU) Media Fellowship programme empowers Africans to shape and share their own stories. The AU Media Fellowship is open to all African journalists and content creators who […]

Science journalists who want to join the 2025 Science Journalism Forum (SJF25) can apply for Attendance Fellowships. This Attendance Fellowships will help ensurile that financial barriers don’t stand in the way of passionate science journalists […]

DEADLINE: JULY 28, 2025 — Bertha Challenge, a fellowship for activists, investigative journalists, filmmakers and lawyers, is currently open for applications. For the 2026 Bertha Challenge, Bertha Foundation often seeks projects that investigate and expose […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 3, 2025 — The Republic seeks applications for the Black Atlantic Editorial Fellowship, a six-month programme for the production of stories rooted in Blackness and the African experience. Fellows will receive a monthly […]

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 — Applications are open for the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers, an international fellowship. A Cullman Centre Fellow receives the use of an office with a […]