Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism 2025-2026 ($70,000 stipend)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism 2025-2026. The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship gives skilled journalists the OPPORTUNITY to reinforce their understanding of enterprise and economics, finance and expertise.

Fellows spend two semesters at Columbia Journalism School and take most of their courses at Columbia Business School. They meet weekly for off-the-record seminars and dinners with high journalists, entrepreneurs and company leaders. In scope and depth, it’s the most complete and rigorous enterprise journalism fellowship in the world. They settle for as much as 10 fellows every year.

The fellowship is called for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which established an endowment for this system, and Walter Bagehot (pronounced BADGE-it), the nineteenth­-century editor of The Economist. The program additionally depends upon grants from a variety of different charitable foundations, companies and publishing organizations for a good portion of its annual funds.

Cost

• Tuition at Columbia is totally lined. Each fellow may even obtain a stipend of $70,000 for the nine-month program. The cash is paid in two installments (September and February) with no taxes withheld (however it’s taxable, so you’ll have to issue that into your funds). The fellowship pays for medical health insurance for one individual (household protection is additional) and numerous tutorial and facility charges. Subsidized scholar housing can also be out there.
• The program doesn’t pay for routine dwelling bills, textbooks, journey, native transportation, fitness center memberships, particular packages, scholar membership charges, transcript verification, fines or parking.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists who’re keen about enterprise and economics and who need to get higher at their jobs.
• You ought to have a minimal of 4 years of enterprise or economics reporting, however seven years in journalism is extra typical.
• Because it is a post-graduate program, you could have a bachelor’s diploma from a regionally accredited U.S. college or its equal from one other nation. A verified transcript is required.

Application

Click here to apply

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