Altavoz Lab Community Journalist Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 16, 2026

Applications are open for the Altavoz Lab Community Journalist Fellowship 2026. Altavoz Lab believes journalism could make a tangible impression on native accountability and communicate on to audiences, not nearly them. Their focus is on serving communities which have been disenfranchised up to now. Local journalists who stay and work in these communities have the expertise to grasp and serve them authentically.

By strengthening their work and amplifying their voices, they’ll rebuild belief and be certain that these important tales are advised. This seven-month lengthy program launches in April 2026 and brings collectively a good-knit cohort of reporters working on the coronary heart of their communities.

Benefits

• Fellows will obtain as much as $8,000 to provide an in-depth reporting venture or sequence, and host newsrooms will obtain as much as $3,000 in further funds to deepen and increase their viewers engagement past social media.

Eligibility

• Open to freelancers and employees reporters of all expertise ranges working in English or Spanish with group-based mostly information shops that serve traditionally disinvested audiences throughout the U.S.
• They are searching for journalists deeply rooted of their communities and able to produce reporting that facilities native voices and pressing realities usually ignored by mainstream media.

Application

Application requires:

• Budget (DOC / PDF pattern) for reporting work and for viewers engagement plan. (Whether you’re a freelance or employees journalist, specify whether or not your outlet can cowl any of the prices related together with your venture and/or the engagement element of this fellowship). 
• Contact of 1 skilled reference 
• Resume and headshot.
• Signed editor consent kind (DOC / PDF pattern) agreeing to assist fellow and their venture.
• Live in the neighborhood you’re reporting on.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Altavoz Lab Community Journalist Fellowship.