IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 19, 2026

Applications are open for the IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship 2026. The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship is a singular, transformative studying OPPORTUNITY open to girls and nonbinary journalists from each nation world wide. Since 2005, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has chosen one Neuffer Fellow every year to finish a six-month Fellowship centered on human rights and social justice points. The Fellowship was created in reminiscence of The Boston Globe correspondent and IWMF Courage in Journalism Award (1998) winner Elizabeth Neuffer, who died whereas reporting in Iraq on May 9, 2003.

Those chosen for the Fellowship spend a semester on the Center for International Studies on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Boston Globe. During their time in Cambridge, Neuffer Fellows audit a wide range of lessons, attend seminars and occasions, pursue impartial analysis and achieve newsroom expertise. Neuffer Fellows are additionally capable of audit lessons at different native universities together with Harvard. After the semester, these chosen for the Fellowship spend two months in New York City interning for the The New York Times. With the data they achieve from these tutorial {and professional} alternatives, fellows return to work as journalists of their home international locations the place they advance Elizabeth Neuffer’s work within the fields of human rights and social justice.

Benefits

• Neuffer Fellows obtain a hard and fast month-to-month stipend to cowl their residing prices. The IWMF additionally arranges and covers the price of housing in Cambridge and New York City for the guy.
• The IWMF purchases spherical-journey financial system airfare from the guy’s place of residence to the United States, in addition to transportation between the Fellowship cities.
• The fellow receives medical health insurance throughout this system. The Fellowship doesn’t embody a wage. For fellows residing exterior of the United States, the Fellowship additionally covers the prices of making use of for and acquiring a U.S. visa. The fellow is absolutely chargeable for any extra incidental bills and different prices.

Eligibility

• Open to girls, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming journalists whose work focuses on human rights and social justice points. 
• All candidates for the Neuffer Fellowship should be working journalists with a minimum of three years of full-time, skilled journalism expertise. Internships and journalism-associated work accomplished as a college pupil don’t depend as skilled expertise. Applicants could also be employees or freelance journalists.
• Journalists from any nation world wide are eligible to apply. However, candidates should communicate, learn and write English fluently so as to absolutely take part in and profit from the Fellowship.

Application

A whole application will embody the next info:

• Biography
• Current résumé or CV
• Statement of curiosity
• Fellowship targets
• Two work samples protecting human rights or social justice points (hyperlinks most well-liked)
  • If work samples should not in English, candidates should add their very own translations together with knowledgeable translator’s evaluation of their accuracy. Alternatively, candidates could have their work samples translated professionally.
• Two letters of advice (in English)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship.