Complex Systems Summer School Journalism Fellowship 2025 (Stipend available)

Deadline: February 17, 2025

Applications are open for the Complex Systems Summer School Journalism Fellowship 2025. Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents a journalism fellowship for achieved reporters. National and worldwide journalists with a demonstrated curiosity in and report of reporting about issues associated to complicated methods are inspired to apply for this residential fellowship in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The premise of the fellowship is to supply journalists an OPPORTUNITY to discover complicated methods science extra deeply by attending SFI’s iconic four-week Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS). During their residency in Santa Fe, two chosen journalists will study alongside graduate college students, postdoctoral scientists, and professionals by way of an intensive collection of lectures and labs taught by world-renowned college. The Fellow could have the chance to work together with prime scientists collaborating throughout disciplines on the Santa Fe Institute and can be inspired to contribute to a gaggle venture on the Complex Systems Summer School. Armed with a brand new appreciation for the historical past of and traits in complicated methods science, and the state and limitations of present scientific idea, the Fellows then return to their day-to-day reporting higher ready to convey the interrelatedness of options to the complicated issues we face.

Benefits

• A stipend of $6,250 for the five-week program is supplied; as college students on the Complex Systems Summer School, Fellows can be housed on the Institute of American Indian Arts. The stipend might improve the Fellow’s present wage, or the journalist’s employer might offset his or her ongoing wage with the stipend. Enrollment in SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School is supplied freed from cost. Travel reimbursement can be supplied. SFI advantages will not be included on this provide.

Eligibility

The Fellowship seeks achieved, actively reporting full-time journalists.

• Applicants are thought of whose reporting within the nationwide and worldwide information media demonstrates an curiosity in science or in issues that interdisciplinary science may also help deal with.
• Each applicant should have the ability to show his or her standing as a full-time working journalist (any beat) for not less than the earlier seven years. Freelance journalists should have the ability to show routine reporting for the previous seven years.
• Applicants could also be reporters, writers, editors, producers, or program hosts. They may go in newspapers, magazines, information web sites, tv, or radio.
• Journalists from all international locations will compete equally; prime precedence can be afforded to journalists working primarily within the English language.
• There aren’t any academic stipulations.
• Professionals now working primarily in public info, public relations, the commerce press, authorities, or academia with out all the above credentials will not be eligible.

Requirements

Selected candidates should conform to the next necessities:

• To reside full-time within the Santa Fe space for the complete time period of the fellowship.
• To chorus from skilled reporting throughout the fellowship (continuity of present running a blog and social media actions are permitted and inspired).
• To take part totally within the Complex Systems Summer School.
• To give not less than one flexible-format presentation for the Complex Systems Summer School college students and one formal lunchtime seminar at Cowan Campus for SFI researchers throughout the ultimate week of the fellowship.
• For worldwide selectees, to acquire required journey credentials together with an acceptable visa with a standing permitting direct cost and receipt of U.S. funds.

Application

Application paperwork embody:

• Resume or CV
• Five previous examples {of professional} work that show substantive protection of complicated systems-related science or science utilized to complicated methods points (accepted file codecs embody pdf, scan, or lively URL)
• Fellowship proposal letter detailing how the journalist intends to make use of the fellowship to additional their very own journalistic expertise and perspective.
• Two letters of advice from editors or different people conversant in the applicant’s work, submitted instantly by the authors to [email protected] with each the applicant’s title and “CSSS Journalism Fellowship” within the topic line.

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For extra info, go to CSSS Journalism Fellowship.