Norman Webster Fellowship 2025 (up to $125,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 21, 2025

Applications are open for the Norman Webster Fellowship 2025. The Norman Webster Fellowship is being established to honour the legacy of the late Norman Webster and his contributions to Canadian public service journalism. It is meant to amplify the ecosystems of small Canadian newsrooms; recognizing their vital function in conserving communities related by way of their native information, offering a variety of voices and opinions, and sustaining journalistic independence.

Designed to deal with present wants in Canadian journalism, the Norman Webster Fellowship will even assist early profession journalists discover new alternatives and acquire essential expertise. While its themes might evolve by way of every iteration in session with its jury, stakeholders, recipients and newsrooms, its core will stay rooted in public service journalism.

Fellowship

• Two fellowships, one for every English and French media, will likely be awarded each 24 months to impartial, native Canadian newsrooms, valued up to $125,000 every, offering a novel OPPORTUNITY to produce a groundbreaking story or collection of tales, give alternatives to an early profession journalist, and doubtlessly accomplice with a nationwide media outlet to additional the attain and affect of their work. All ensuing tales produced as part of the Webster Fellowship will likely be translated into both French or English to join with a wider Canadian viewers.

Eligibility

To apply for the Norman Webster Fellowship, you have to be a newsroom government with authority over the proposed journalistic mission. Preference will likely be given to:

• A non-partisan native information group primarily based in Canada, serving small- to medium-sized communities (i.e. this fellowship is just not for nationwide media).
• Local information organizations are outlined as information retailers that keep independence from these they cowl, exhibit a dedication to accuracy and transparency in reporting strategies, and are devoted primarily to reporting on and for communities inside an outlined geographic space.
• Preference will likely be given to candidates that may usually not be anticipated to have entry to the sources required by this journalistic endeavor.

Criteria

• Must be an impartial native media outlet. Media is defined as print, broadcast or digital media. All types of story-telling together with textual content, photographs, graphics, video and audio are eligible.
• Project have to be investigative in nature, with a robust give attention to public service journalism with notable affect for the group.
• Applications are required to embody the hiring of not less than one early-profession journalist, defined as having 2-6 years of expertise, to both lead or contribute to an investigation or cowl a brand new beat, or to backfill day-to-day newsroom actions in order to present an in-home reporter with this chance. Newsrooms will likely be chargeable for assigning/hiring this particular person.
• The mission might be new or one thing that’s already being labored on.

Application

Applications will shut on March 21, 2025. Applications will likely be accepted in each English and French.

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For extra data, go to Norman Webster Fellowship.