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THE MCGRAW FELLOWSHIP FOR BUSINESS JOURNALISM 

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Application Deadline: March 31, 2025

LOCATION: USA

Are you a journalist with a great idea for a high-impact story that “Follows the Money” but few resources to get it done?

The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism would like to hear from you. The McGraw Fellowship provides editorial and financial support to journalists who need the time and resources to produce a significant investigative or enterprise story that provides fresh insight into an important business, financial, or economic topic. 

ELIGIBILITY:

The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is open to anyone with at least five years professional experience in journalism. We support work by freelance journalists, as well as by reporters and editors currently working at a news organization or a journalism non-profit. In the latter case, reporters and editors can apply directly in the name of their organization.

They seek for applicants with a proven ability to report and execute a complex project in their proposed medium; ideally, candidates will also have a strong background or reporting expertise on the subject of their project.

Applicants should submit a well-focused story proposal of no more than three pages through the accompanying online form. Think of it as pitch, much like you would submit to an editor at a newspaper, magazine, audio or digital outlet: give us enough preliminary reporting and documentation to demonstrate that the story is solid. The proposal should highlight what’s new and significant about the story, why it matters and what its potential impact might be.

BENEFIT:

The Fellowship provides a grant of up to $15,000 for each project. The exact amount will depend on the time it takes to complete the project and the expenses needed. Freelance journalists may use some of the funding as a stipend for living expenses during the fellowship. 

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GRIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

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Application Deadline: January 21, 2025

LOCATION: USA

Want to grow as a journalist while absorbing a universe of environmental knowledge?

The Grist Fellowship Program is a paid opportunity to hone your skills at a national news outlet and deepen your understanding of environmental issues.

ELIGIBILITY:

The mission of the Grist fellowship program is to help underrepresented, early-career climate journalists gain a stronger foothold in our industry. Our definition of “early-career” includes but is not limited to: journalists who are relatively new to the environmental/climate beat, freelancers who have not had full-time newsroom experience, recent journalism school graduates, and scientists without traditional journalism training but with strong writing clips and content knowledge. 

The experience is designed to give early-career journalists with a demonstrated interest in environmental issues the experience to succeed in climate and environmental media.

Grist aims to help train the next generation of environmental journalists and storytellers. The Grist Fellowship Program is designed to provide newsroom experience for early-career journalists who have a demonstrated interest in environmental and climate journalism and media. 

Regardless of what brings you to their Fellowship Program, if a Grist fellowship could benefit your environmental journalism career, they’d love to hear from you. They especially encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and encourage you to be in touch with us if you have questions. (fellowships@grist.org) 

Applicants must submit the following application materials.  Please note that applications without both a resume and cover letter will not be considered.  

 Resume

Cover letter. We are looking for a succinct, thoughtful cover letter that explains what you are passionate about when it comes to climate news (science, politics, or policy) coverage, gives examples of story ideas you might want to pursue, and reasons you believe you are a good fit for this position.

Links to two news writing samples. These can appear within or appended to the end of your cover letter. Writing samples can be newspaper or magazine clips, blog posts, or unpublished pieces. We will gladly accept links to multimedia samples (video, illustration, infographic, podcast, etc.) but cannot review original files. If you have a GitHub account you’d like to show us, please provide a link to your profile. 

Finalist candidates who are asked to submit a writing test will be compensated.

Cover letters must be uploaded as a separate attachment via Greenhouse. Please include “Climate News Fellow” in the document title. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please submit applications by 11:59 PT on January 21, 2025. 

If you have questions, please email fellowships@grist.org. No phone calls, please.

Applications for our 2025-2026 fellowships are now open until January 21 2025.  We are accepting applicants are in the following areas:

Climate News

Climate Solutions

Indigenous Affairs

Details about each fellowship, the application process and compensation for each position are available here. The fellowship will run from May 2025 to April 2026.

BENEFIT:

The annual base pay for this position is $58,750. 

Medical, dental, and vision premiums paid 100% for Employee and 85% for Dependent premiums

Employer-paid Basic Life, ADD, Travel Assistance, STD/LTD, EAPs

Voluntary Insurance include Health, Dependent, and Transit FSA, Life/ADD, Critical Illness and Accident Insurance

Traditional and Roth 401k with matching (vested immediately)

New Employee Remote Office Set-up reimbursement

Monthly WiFi Stipend

Alternative Transportation Reimbursement

Fifteen paid holidays per year (which includes office closure between Dec 25 and Jan 1) plus five floating holidays and 3 summer days

Generous paid leave including medical and family leave, parental leave, abortion leave, sabbatical leave, and many other paid and unpaid leave programs

Annual in-person all-staff retreat (subject to pandemic conditions)

Flexible work options

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