AIR New Voices Public Radio Fellowship 2025 [U.S. Only] – YOA

Deadline: July 6, 2025

Applications are open for the AIR New Voices Public Radio Fellowship 2025. AIR’s New Voices Public Radio Fellowship is designed to foster the expansion and improvement of public radio professionals. They empower people with mid-stage expertise as reporters, hosts, producers, and editors in public media newsrooms or podcasting.

Up to sixteen people can be chosen to affix a public media-particular cohort, fostering collaboration and lengthy-time period skilled relationships throughout the public media business. Fellows will obtain mentorship and steering from public radio professionals, guaranteeing members obtain customized insights and strategic profession recommendation. 

During the eight-week fellowship, members will attend weekly webinars and discussions with particular friends from public radio stations. While this system is open to anybody who works in or needs to work in public media – the weekly discussions and classes can be focused to reporters, hosts, producers, and editors. Webinars can be targeted on totally different matters associated to working at or throughout the public radio ecosystem. 

For the 2025 New Voices Public Radio cohort, fellows can be anticipated to finish a capstone challenge: a nicely-fashioned story pitch. Throughout their eight weeks, they’ll have the OPPORTUNITY to workshop story concepts and polish pitches with one another earlier than they pitch to a panel of choice makers at NPR and member stations on the finish. You can be guided by New Voices Public Radio Captain Thomas Lu (NV ‘20) and AIR’s New Voices Program Manager Lynn Casper. Upon finishing this system, you’ll develop into part of the New Voices alumni community. 

Benefits

• Sixteen chosen members will obtain mentorship, skilled improvement assist, on-line workshops with leaders within the business and a $1,000 stipend.
• Each participant can be thoughtfully matched with a mentor they are going to meet with every month throughout this system. A curated collection of compelling audio system will current on varied matter, offering you with a toolkit of versatile abilities to adapt to a altering media panorama, whereas reimagining extra collaborative profession paths. 

Eligibility

• You should be 18 or older to apply.
• You don’t should be a U.S. citizen to apply however you should be primarily based within the U.S. and have a U.S. Bank account to obtain the stipend. The program leans in direction of navigating public radio within the U.S., which is why they state this upfront as they’re a U.S. primarily based group.       
• You at the moment work in public media or have beforehand labored in public media.
• You are mid-profession and really feel caught or may use some mentorship and coaching to work in direction of your profession objectives.
• You have expertise working in media and have produced, edited or pitched tales earlier than — however may nonetheless profit from a gaggle pitching workshop.
• You come from a traditionally marginalized and/or underrepresented group and lack entry to alternatives and assets.

Application

The program will meet twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-8pm ET beginning on September 2na and ending on October twenty third, 2025. Ensure that you’re accessible for all dates indicated. Failure to attend will end in removing of this system and lack of stipend.

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For extra data, go to AIR New Voices Public Radio Fellowship.