R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship 2025 (Canada)

Funding Information

• This is an award of up to $25,000 for one year, administered by Carleton University.

Costs Covered

• 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.

Application Requirements

• 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.
• Travers Fellows must agree to sign a waiver before heading into the field (waiver will be provided) and must also submit an expense report upon completion of the project.
• 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.

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