Higher Ed Media Fellowship 2025 for U.S.-based Journalists (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Higher Ed Media Fellowship 2025. Journalists and the media play a vital position in shaping public understanding of the position of upper schooling in shaping the subsequent era of residents. However, the sources wanted to provide excessive-high quality reporting on urgent schooling points have been declining for years. Higher Ed Media Fellows are journalists serious about diving deeper into underreported points in larger schooling.

The Fellowship at present focuses on points associated to postsecondary Career and Technical Education (CTE), with matters together with knowledge sourcing and evaluation, finest practices for overlaying underrepresented communities, and the intersection of postsecondary schooling and civic studying. The Fellowship is funded by the ECMC Foundation. Funding is awarded yearly to early and mid-profession journalists finishing CTE reporting initiatives. As part of this system, Fellows will attend a symposium to construct their data and additional develop their craft.

Fellowship

• Each ECMC Foundation Fellow within the Higher Education Fellowship program will probably be awarded $10,000—$5,000 as a stipend and $5,000 in direction of the reporting venture.
• The six-month, non-residential program begins with an expense-paid postsecondary profession and technical schooling (CTE) symposium.
  • The Spring 2025 Symposium will probably be hosted in Durham, NC on April 28-30 for chosen Fellows.
• Following the symposium, Fellows should full a reporting venture, reminiscent of a particular report or collection.
• Fellows can even attend a CTE Collaborative Convening hosted by the ECMC Foundation on October 7-9, 2025 in Austin, TX.

Eligibility

• Open to U.S.-based journalists who’re schooling beat reporters or these whose work expertise contains reporting on schooling and related workforce improvement, social, or public coverage points.
• Potential Fellows will probably be early- and mid-profession journalists serious about deepening and increasing their understanding of postsecondary schooling with a selected emphasis on CTE.
• Print, radio, TV, multimedia, and on-line editors and journalists from native and nationwide publications and digital-solely information platforms are eligible, as are freelancers who goal mainstream/company and impartial media shops.

Application

An entire Higher Education Media Fellowship application consists of those required elements:

• a submitted on-line application;
• one letter of advice; and
• a supplemental objects PDF together with a résumé and full work samples. Do NOT add PDF in portfolio format.

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For extra data, go to Higher Ed Media Fellowship.