Monday, March 23, 2015 12:17 PM
USC Annenberg/National Health Journalism Fellowship
When: July 12-16, 2015
Where: Los Angeles
Deadline to Apply: April 1, 2015
Only one week remains to apply for the all-expenses-paid National Health Journalism Fellowship — five days of stimulating discussions, workshops and field trips in Los Angeles that focus on vulnerable children and families and the community conditions that contribute to their well-being. The Fellowship comes with reporting grants of $2,000-$10,000 to underwrite reporting on health issues in underserved communities, vulnerable children or health care reform. In this era of declining newsroom resources, wouldn’t you like a little extra money to help turn a compelling idea for a story into a marquee project that makes a difference?
Based at USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism, the National Health Journalism Fellowship open to print, broadcast and online journalists from around the country. About half of the 20 National Fellows will receive grants of $2,000 each to undertake ambitious reporting projects on underserved communities, healthcare reform or vulnerable children. The other half will receive grants of $2,500-$10,000 from one of two specialty reporting funds — the Dennis A. Hunt Journalism Fund and the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being.
The Hunt Fund will support investigative or explanatory projects that examine the effects of a specific factor or confluence of factors on a community’s health, such as poverty, health disparities, pollution, violence, urban development, access to health care and access to healthy food. The new Child Well-Being Fund, supported by a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, will underwrite investigative or explanatory reporting on the impact on children of poverty or trauma. We’re interested in proposals for projects that examine the performance of the institutions and government and private programs that serve disadvantaged families or look at child welfare and child health and well-being at the community level, including, but not limited to, the impact of toxic stress; the intersection between partner violence and child abuse; the role of policy in improving prospects for children, including those in juvenile detention; and innovative approaches to the challenges that children in underserved communities face.
Competition for the National Fellowship and the specialty reporting grants is open to both newsroom staffers and freelancers. The grants can be used to defray reporting and publishing-related costs such as travel, database acquisition and analysis, translation services, community engagement strategies and a journalist’s otherwise uncompensated time. Preference is given to applicants who propose co-publication or co-broadcast in both mainstream and ethnic media.
For more information, visit ReportingonHealth.org or e-mail Martha Shirk at [email protected].
