Great Lakes Local News Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: February 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Great Lakes Local News Fellowship 2026-2027. The Great Lakes Local News Fellowship is designed to assist the event of latest or reimagined regionally-targeted journalism tasks serving communities within the midwestern Great Lakes states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

The fellowship will supply assist and coaching to 2 journalists or journalism strategists from the main focus states. Fellowship assist consists of entry to specialists in entrepreneurship, enterprise regulation, organizational improvement and submit-fellowship consulting to help in creating and implementing entrepreneurial journalism tasks. Projects could embrace however are usually not restricted to crafting enterprise plans, creating funding and income fashions, addressing technical or distribution challenges, or designing neighborhood engagement methods to rebuild public belief in journalism or attain underserved communities.

Eligibility

• Open to U.S. journalists and journalism strategists constructing or rising native information retailers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio or Wisconsin.
• Applicants ought to reside in or have a demonstrated understanding of the world they’re proposing to serve and have at the very least 5 years of working expertise.
• Applicants ought to have a transparent intent to stay in and serve a neighborhood in one of many focus states after the completion of their fellowship.

Application

• Applicants should clarify of their private assertion their present connection to native information in one of many Great Lakes states and, of their undertaking proposal, describe their entrepreneurial journalism undertaking and the way the fellowship and further assets would assist them obtain their targets. 
• Applicants ought to be particular within the expertise they’ve and the talents they should develop.

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For extra data, see FAQ and go to Great Lakes Local News Fellowship.