Deadline: 6 January 2025
The Common Health Coalition and the National Press Club Journalism Institute has launched a new fellowship opportunity for mid-career journalists.
The Common Health Coalition is honored to support the work of the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s Public Health Reporting Fellowship. This fellowship helps ensure journalists elevate the important — and often unseen — partnerships occurring across the country between healthcare and public health. And these are stories worth telling, because such partnerships make their health system stronger and their families and communities healthier.
Funding Information
- Fellows will receive up to $7,500 in funding to support reporting expenses for a significant project to be published by fellows’ employers or a supporting news outlet.
- Fellows will have six months (February through July 2025) to complete and publish/distribute their respective projects.
Benefits
- The awards will fund the work necessary to complete each reporting project, including travel and time away from regular duties.
- During the six-month, fully remote program, the fellows will also receive monthly training, access to subject-matter experts, and mentorship customized to their specific project.
- Fellows will attend a half-day virtual orientation with training content focused on public health issues, data, resources and research to support their projects.
- Fellows will receive support from leading public health experts and journalists serving as mentors throughout the fellowship.
- Fellows will participate in monthly virtual checkpoints to continue building their knowledge of resources and data.
- Fellows will also participate in a publicly available knowledge-share webinar to assist other health reporters in pursuing this work by describing what they learned and the “how” behind their projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Newsroom and freelance journalists are welcome to apply.
- Be a U.S.-based journalist with a minimum of 10 years of experience in a professional setting.
Application Requirements
- Commit to a large-scale reporting project in the public health space. Print, digital, audio, visual, and broadcast projects will be considered.
- Provide a 2-3 page proposal for your public health reporting project. They want to know what research you have done on this topic and why you are equipped to complete this project. Who do you plan to interview and how will you find additional sources? Please also include where your final project will be published or distributed. They require a budget that breaks down the cost for your travel and reporting expenses.
- For newsroom staff: You must have a letter of support from your supervisor or editor that allows you time to participate in the fellowship and confirms they’ll publish your work.
- For freelancers: You must have confirmation of support from the news outlet(s) where you intend to publish your work.
For more information, visit National Press Club Journalism Institute.
