NPCJI/CHC Public Health Reporting Fellowship 2025 (up to $7,500)

Deadline: January 6, 2025

Applications are open for the National Press Club Journalism Institute Public Health Reporting Fellowship 2025. The Common Health Coalition and the National Press Club Journalism Institute have launched this new fellowship OPPORTUNITY for mid-career journalists. The Public Health Reporting Fellowship will award up to $7,500 every to 5 people to assist reporting tasks targeted on the intersection of public well being coverage and well being care supply.

The Common Health Coalition, which brings collectively main well being care organizations in pursuit of a extra unified well being system, has invested $50,000 to begin the fellowship program on the Institute. Applicants might be requested to suggest a big reporting undertaking protecting a vital group, regional, state, or nationwide public well being situation, to be printed or distributed by July 2025.

Fellowship

• Fellows will obtain up to $7,500 in funding to assist reporting bills for a big undertaking to be printed by fellows’ employers or a supporting information outlet. Newsroom and freelance journalists are welcome to apply. Projects would even be distributed throughout NPCJI networks and accomplice websites.
• Fellows may have six months (February via July 2025) to full and publish/distribute their respective tasks. 
• Fellows will attend a half-day digital orientation with coaching content material targeted on public well being points, information, assets and analysis to assist their tasks.
• Fellows will obtain assist from main public well being specialists and journalists serving as mentors all through the fellowship.
• Fellows will take part in month-to-month digital checkpoints to proceed constructing their information of assets and information.
• Fellows will even take part in a publicly obtainable knowledge-share webinar to help different well being reporters in pursuing this work by describing what they discovered and the “how” behind their tasks.

Eligibility

• Be a U.S.-based journalist with a minimal of 10 years of expertise in knowledgeable setting.
• Commit to a large-scale reporting undertaking within the public well being house. Print, digital, audio, visible, and broadcast tasks might be thought of.
• Provide a 2-3 web page proposal in your public well being reporting undertaking. They need to know what analysis you’ve got carried out on this matter and why you might be geared up to full this undertaking. Who do you propose to interview and the way will you discover further sources? Please additionally embrace the place your last undertaking might be printed or distributed. They require a finances that breaks down the associated fee in your journey and reporting bills.   
• For newsroom employees: You should have a letter of assist out of your supervisor or editor that enables you time to take part within the fellowship and confirms they’ll publish your work. 
• For freelancers: You should have affirmation of assist from the information outlet(s) the place you propose to publish your work.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Public Health Reporting Fellowship.