Deadline: 15 February 2024
The Columbia Journalism School has launched the Ira A. Lipman Fellowship to support significant reporting regarding civil or human rights.
Fellows must publish their finished stories within a year of accepting the fellowship and give the Lipman Center confirmation that their employers agree to publication. Freelancers must have a news outlet or magazine lined up to publish their fellowship stories. Fellows may be invited to campus to give a public presentation about their work, and upon mutual agreement, may also lecture, mentor and advise students.
Fellows will produce a 5,000-word story or series regarding civil and human rights broadly construed, such as voting rights, use of force by police, employment and other discrimination, human trafficking, child labor and more.
Funding Information
- Each fellow will be awarded $10,000.
Benefit
- They will pay for fellows to come to New York for presentations and a fellowship event. All travel requests and other expenses must be made in advance and are subject to approval.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must be full-time staff reporters or writers with a U.S. news agency, magazine or online outlet, or independent journalists working in the United States.
- The fellowship is nonresidential.
For more information, visit Columbia Journalism School.
