ELIGIBILITY:

Journalists based in Africa and the Middle East with at least three years’ experience reporting on science, health or environmental issues in the region. Applicants may be reporters, writers, editors, producers, illustrators, filmmakers, or photojournalists. This includes work for newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and digital media. Applicants should be proficient in spoken and written English.

This one-semester fellowship is held in the fall of the academic year and hosted by KSJ at MIT. The fellow will join other KSJ fellows in a program of study at MIT and other Cambridge/Boston area universities and in the program’s seminars, training workshops and field trips throughout the semester.

BENEFIT:

$40,000 stipend for the semester

MIT health insurance

A travel and housing stipend paid near the start of the fellowship

Full access to MIT benefits such as subsidized public transportation, access to museums and other programs in the area

Connections to a thriving community of science journalists