R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship 2024 (Canada)

Deadline: 4 January 2024

Applications are now open for the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship to help finance a significant foreign reporting project by a Canadian journalist — staffer, freelancer or student — working in any medium.

Applicants with imaginative, innovative perspectives on pressing global issues and imaginative ideas about how to effectively report them are encouraged to apply.

Funding Information

The fellowship provides an annual award of up to $25,000 to cover travel, research and reporting expenses and a stipend for a journalist.
The award is intended to cover the costs of time spent researching, reporting, travelling, and producing a significant project; and, renting equipment and paying for help (e.g. translators, photographers, videographers). The award will not cover the purchase of equipment.

Eligibility Criteria

The fellowship is open to Canadians, and non-Canadians holding a valid Canadian work permit, who are working as freelance or full-time journalists in any medium.
Students enrolled in graduate-level journalism or equivalent programs are also encouraged to apply. Team submissions are accepted.
Applicants with imaginative, innovative perspectives on pressing global issues and imaginative ideas about how to effectively report them are encouraged to apply.

Terms

Successful applicants are expected to focus exclusively on their Fellowship project while reporting in the field and to complete the project by the end of the calendar year in which it is awarded.
All publication and/or broadcast of Fellowship work will be accompanied by an appropriate credit citing financial support from the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship and be freely available to the public.
While published work shall remain the property of the Fellow, Carleton University reserves the right to use completed projects to promote the Fellowship.
Fellows are required, upon completion of their project, to submit a journalistic reflection (no more than 500 words) that includes relevant photos taken in the field (of themselves at work as well as of their sources etc.) for use on the Fellowship website and related promotion efforts.

For more information, visit Carleton University.