McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism – Fall 2025 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 13, 2025

Applications are open for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism – Fall 2025. Are you a journalist with an important concept for a excessive-impression story that “Follows the Money” however few assets to get it carried out? The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism would love to hear from you.

The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism offers skilled journalists with grants up to $15,000 and the editorial assist wanted to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative tales with a robust financial, monetary or enterprise angle. You don’t want to be a enterprise reporter to apply — a lot of our earlier Fellows have been generalists, or cowl beats equivalent to well being care, training or the setting. Others have targeted on points equivalent to financial inequality or company accountability.

Given the large adjustments in federal spending and coverage priorities now popping out of the brand new administration in Washington DC, they’re notably throughout the in-story proposals that look at the impression of those adjustments.

Benefits

• The Fellowship offers a grant of up to $15,000 for every venture. The actual quantity will rely on the time it takes to full the venture and the bills wanted. Freelance journalists could use a few of the funding as a stipend for residing bills throughout the Fellowship. 

Eligibility

• Open to anybody with no less than 5 years skilled expertise in journalism. 
• They assist work by freelance journalists, in addition to by reporters and editors presently working at a information group or a journalism non-revenue. In the latter case, reporters and editors can apply straight within the identify of their group.
• They take into account proposals from each freelance and employees journalists in all types of media — textual content, audio, picture, and brief-kind video — and encourage those who mix codecs to create a multimedia package deal.
• They look for initiatives that concentrate on necessary native or regional matters, in addition to those who sort out compelling nationwide or worldwide tales or report on below-lined communities or points. Journalists from various backgrounds are strongly inspired to apply.

Application

Applicants ought to submit a properly-targeted story proposal of not more than three pages by the accompanying on-line kind. Think of it as pitch, very similar to you’ll submit to an editor at a newspaper, journal, audio or digital outlet: give them sufficient preliminary reporting and documentation to exhibit that the story is stable.

The proposal ought to spotlight what’s new and vital concerning the story, why it issues and what its potential impression may be. The proposal must also word the place vital tales on the topic have run elsewhere and the way the proposed piece would differ. Applicants must also briefly define a proposed reporting plan and a timeline for finishing the story. And when you don’t want to have a media outlet lined up for your story earlier than you apply, in case you do have one, tell us that in your proposal.

In addition, candidates ought to enclose three journalism samples. The samples must be professionally revealed work that showcases your capacity to sort out an in-depth story within the proposed medium. Also present us with an up-to-date resume. No references are required on the time of application, however those that are chosen as finalists can be requested to present references from two editors or others aware of their work. Freelance candidates for whom getting references is an issue can talk about options with the McGraw Center.

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For extra info, go to McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism.