IWMF Lauren Brown Fellowship 2025 (up to $2,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 20, 2025

Applications are open for the IWMF Lauren Brown Fellowship 2025. The Lauren Brown Fellowship was created in reminiscence of Lauren Alix Brown, a founding editor at Quartz Media who died in 2019 on the age of 37. As director of particular initiatives, she oversaw a few of Quartz’s most bold journalism, and championed writing from underrepresented racial and ethnic teams.

Lauren superior an organizational and editorial dedication to gender equality and mentored a lot of the younger journalists who got here by Quartz, and most of the veterans as nicely. Lauren’s follow of digital journalism, as an editor and author herself, was forward of its time, and has been deeply influential. Among different issues, she recognized how the digital forces wracking conventional journalism may very well be harnessed to expose readers to folks whose voices had been historically missed.

The Lauren Brown Fellowship, created by her colleagues, household, associates, and friends, in partnership with the IWMF, goals to prolong her affect for a few years to come by supporting the work of gifted girls and nonbinary journalists.

Grants will assist:

• Reporting that exposes below-reported and significant points.
• Ambitious initiatives that problem below-reported media narratives.
• Professional improvement to construct area-based mostly experience and strengthen careers.
• Skills coaching and management alternatives.

grant

• Grants of up to $2,000 shall be awarded to assist reporting initiatives or skilled improvement alternatives, by a aggressive application course of.

Eligibility

• Journalists have to be based mostly within the U.S.
• The fellowship will fund initiatives proposed by girls and nonbinary journalists from underrepresented backgrounds.

Application

The application deadline is Sunday, July 20 at 11:59 PM EST. The IWMF and Quartz committee anticipate to announce grant recipients by finish of August.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Lauren Brown Fellowship.