Omidyar Network Reporters in Residence Program 2025 (stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Omidyar Network Reporters in Residence Program 2025. The Reporters in Residence program is designed to allow a bunch of freelance journalists to commit extra time to deep, nuanced reporting that drives nationwide conversations and informs coverage debates.

The objective is to offer members with the sources, networks, and help they should inform extra tales with much more impression. This 12 months’s cohort will embrace as much as 5 members whose reporting focuses on uncovering the rising guidelines, establishments, norms, and narratives shaping our digital panorama.

In the choice course of, they may prioritize beats that intersect with a few of their key focus areas, together with however not restricted to: Inclusive participation in the design and implementation of digital expertise; Competition, market focus, and/or fiscal investments and their impacts on innovation and security; The intersection of expertise and employee energy; Open Source and public choices particularly because it pertains to generative AI; Tech Governance, together with insurance policies, legal guidelines, rules, establishments, and accountability buildings. While these are a couple of areas of focus, they welcome further beats that discover how digital expertise can and will serve the various, not the few.

Responsibilities

• Individually develop, pitch, and publish roughly one piece per 30 days associated to their core matter space at some point of this system.
• Attend a minimum of one in-person gathering at Omidyar Network’s places of work in both Washington, DC or Redwood City, CA. Individuals which might be unable to journey will probably be requested to affix in convenings nearly.
• Check in frequently (~ twice per 30 days) with Omidyar Network staff.

Benefits

• Candidates who advance to the ultimate spherical of interviews however are usually not chosen for the residency will obtain a $2,500 stipend.
• The Reporter in Residence program is a contractor 1099-standing function with no advantages supplied. The Summer 2025 program will run from July to December of 2025. Each reporter contracted will obtain a stipend of $8,000 a month and $2,000 journey price range (totaling $50,000).

Eligibility

• Applicant ought to have ardour for masking expertise and the digital revolution for a various array of audiences.
• Actively working as a contract journalist (with clips from the previous 12 months) in any medium of reporting.
• At least 5 years of printed reporting expertise, although a university or secondary diploma will not be required.

Application

To apply, submit your resume, your location, social media handles, hyperlinks to a few clips, and a brief assertion (underneath 1,000 phrases) describing in as a lot element as potential the tales you’d purpose to cowl with further sources. Use the “cover letter” add on your assertion and supporting supplies.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Reporters in Residence Program.