Karsh Journalism Fellowship 2026 ($4,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Karsh Journalism Fellowship 2026. The Karsh Journalism Fellowship is the world’s solely journalism program that offers early-profession journalists training, coaching, and mentorship to report on Jewish points with depth and accuracy.

Beginning in January 2026, it goals to do for Jewish points what the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship does for science — offering the specialised coaching reporters have to cowl a nuanced and infrequently misunderstood beat with experience.

Program Details

In the inaugural 12 months, 2026, 10 fellows will attend a complete of three retreats, in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., and be taught from high journalists, teachers, and Jewish leaders. Fellows obtain a $4,000 stipend, and all journey bills are paid.

There can be on-website visits to the Academy Museum in L.A. for a session with a number one showrunner on Jews and Hollywood, in addition to periods analyzing Israel, antisemitism, the Holocaust, the Jewish vote, and different points. The fellowship is nonpartisan and devoted to the very best journalistic requirements. The fellows, mentors, and presenters will come from quite a lot of backgrounds, outlooks, and platforms.

Fellows will full one reporting mission with the approval and on the sole course of their editor, drawing on the knowledge and steerage of Karsh Journalism Mentors, a choose group of high journalists from main media corporations, together with CNN, The New York Times, and The Atlantic.

Benefits

Karsh Journalism Fellows obtain:

• Training on the earth’s solely journalism program targeted on points that frequently dominate the information cycle
• Seminars led by main teachers, journalists, and activists
• A $4000 stipend and all bills paid journey to a few weekend-lengthy retreats in New York, L.A., and Washington, D.C.
• Mentorship from a number of the nation’s finest journalists

Eligibility

To be eligible, candidates should:

• Be a working journalist with not more than 10 years of expertise or
• Be an enrolled graduate scholar in journalism, or a latest graduate of journalism faculty.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Karsh Fellowship.