Dag Hammarskjöld Fund Fellowship 2025 for Journalists (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund Fellowship 2025 for Journalists. For greater than six many years, the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists has proudly chosen devoted journalists from print, tv, radio, and web platforms, primarily hailing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. These gifted people are allowed to report on the important discussions that happen in the course of the opening months of the United Nations General Assembly every September by way of November.

Journalists chosen for this system will deepen their understanding of the work of the UN by way of first-hand commentary of working periods, press conferences, and interviews, thus enabling in-depth reporting on points related to their audiences. They will work together with media colleagues from around the globe and study in regards to the challenges which journalism faces in different international locations.

Benefits

• The Fund will prepare and pay for all journey bills for the Fellowship Recipients. Travel preparations can’t be made till you might have obtained a sound journalist I-1 Visa.
• The Fund will present Fellowship recipients with furnished studio residences close to the United Nations.
• The Fund will carry primary well being/medical insurance coverage for every journalist within the occasion of sickness or accident.  Dental insurance coverage isn’t included.
• The Fund assumes that you’ll proceed to be paid as an worker of your media group. However, to permit for elevated private bills, a modest each day stipend might be paid to every journalist.

Eligibility

• Career journalists, age 25-35, from primarily creating nation of Africa, Asia (together with Pacific Island international locations) and Latin America/the Caribbean are eligible to apply. Freelance journalists are additionally eligible.
• Applicant journalists should have a present passport which might be required to apply for and procure a I-1 journalist visa from a U.S. Embassy or Consulate to be able to settle for the Fellowship.
• Work samples no sooner than 2022 should be supplied.
• Applicants should be employed by bona fide media organizations as print, tv, radio or net journalists.
• Speaking English with proficiency is required because it is likely one of the main language used on the United Nations.
• Journalists youthful than 25 and older than 35 are usually not eligible to apply because the program is meant for mid-profession journalists.
• Students of journalism are usually not eligible to apply.
• Journalists from European international locations are usually not eligible to apply except they’re nonetheless reporting to audiences of their home nation.

Freelance journalists who fulfill all different necessities are eligible to apply.  In addition to offering work samples, a abstract assertion, passport copy and references from colleagues or former supervisors, freelance journalists should present letters from at the least three (3) publications stating that they are going to settle for the studies filed from the United Nations.

Note: Applications from Ghana, Namibia, and Kashmir won’t be accepted in 2025.

Application

Application necessities embrace:

• A accomplished on-line Application Form.
• A minimal of three (3) work samples revealed no sooner than 2022. If the samples are usually not in English, a abstract of the samples in English should be included. If applicant studies can be found on the Internet, the URL addresses needs to be included. If work samples are usually not accessible on the web, copies needs to be uploaded to the Application Form (in Word, PDF, MP3 or JPEG codecs). If not accessible on a media web site, work samples could also be uploaded to a publicly accessible on-line service, comparable to YouTube.
• Letter of endorsement from the editor or director of the information group that presently employs the journalist which: a) grants journalist a paid go away of absence from his/her present duties if awarded a fellowship; b) agrees to publish or broadcast the studies filed by the journalist from the U.N.; and c) gives contact info (e mail, cellphone, and many others.) for verification functions. By endorsing the application, the editor pledges to pay for all transmission costs and to publish or broadcast submitted studies.
• A press release (no more than 500 phrases) expressing a want for the Fellowship how the expertise will profit the applicant’s understanding of worldwide diplomacy and points deliberated on the United Nations.
• A replica of applicant’s present passport. Applicants with no present passport won’t be thought of.
• Two letters of reference from people aware of the applicant’s work and capable of touch upon their journalistic talents, potential for progress and private attributes.

Applications should be submitted no later than 11:59 PM US Eastern Daylight Time on March 30, 2025. Applications which can be in progress however haven’t been submitted by this deadline won’t be thought of.

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For extra info, go to Dag Hammarskjöld Fund Fellowship.