New America Fellows Program Class of 2027 (up to $30k) – YOA

Deadline: February 2, 2026

Applications for the New America Fellows Program Class of 2027 at the moment are open. The New America’s Fellows Program invests in thinkers—journalists, students, filmmakers, and public coverage analysts—who generate large, daring concepts that have an effect and spark new conversations about essentially the most urgent points of our day.

In an age the place journalism is dominated by the 24-7 information cycle, and academia is changing into ever extra esoteric, the fellowships present alternatives for gifted people who want help to pursue extra bold endeavors. Books. Films. Photo essays. Longform storytelling. Policy initiatives. Work that will get to broad audiences and modifications the best way we expect. Voices that signify the various backgrounds and ideologies of the American group.

New America fellows are chosen on a extremely aggressive foundation and serve—most on an adjunct foundation, some full-time—for a one-12 months time period. During that interval, they intention to give them an mental home the place they’ve the time, house, and assets to pursue their initiatives; a group the place they’ll study from each other; and alternatives to interact with others at New America and assist form the longer-time period agenda and focus of the group.

Benefits

• Funding: They provide unrestricted monetary help (ranging between $15k and $30k) to give Fellows higher flexibility in creating their challenge. Whether it dietary supplements their revenue, funds journey, analysis help, or multimedia manufacturing, the stipends are meant to ease some of the monetary constraints that usually restrict bold storytelling. While funding alone gained’t eradicate all limitations, they intention to present respiration room to suppose, create, and experiment—permitting Fellows to concentrate on telling tales that problem views and contribute to public discourse.
• Community: They carry Fellows collectively to help them in constructing relationships with each other, former fellows, and specialists. In addition to an in-individual opening gathering in Washington, DC, they host digital program gatherings designed for Fellows to get to know and help each other whereas studying from alumni, exterior specialists, and their friends. They additionally allow connections with New America’s numerous coverage packages, which home some of the highest thinkers of their respective fields. In May, they convene both just about or in individual for a closing gathering.
• Platforms and Partners: They provide Fellows alternatives to publish with one of our media companions and in New America’s month-to-month e-newsletter, The Thread. Their fellows are often featured in program e-newsletter, The Fifth Draft. They set up ability-constructing classes to facilitate further connections in service of amplifying the voices of our Fellows. And, lastly, they assist with organizing Fellows’ challenge launches throughout or after the completion of this system.

Eligibility

• Open to thinkers—journalists, students, filmmakers, and public coverage analysts.
• They take into account functions from those that could also be based mostly overseas for all or part of the 12 months, they usually settle for functions from non-US residents.

Application

The application deadline is Monday, February 2, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST. The deadline to obtain reference letters is Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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For extra info, go to New America Fellows Program.