New America Future of Work Reporting Fellowship 2026 ($5,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: September 4, 2026

Applications are open for the New America Future of Work Reporting Fellowship 2026. The Future of Work Reporting Fellowship, co-organized by Work Shift and New America’s Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative, helps journalists telling these important tales: how schooling, workforce improvement, and the innovation financial system intersect in actual communities, and what it means for folks’s lives and livelihoods.

Fellows should full a spot-primarily based reporting undertaking, akin to an in-depth article, sequence, or multimedia undertaking that examines the intersection of schooling, workforce improvement, and the innovation financial system in particular communities or areas.

Benefits

Each Fellow within the Work Shift & New America Reporting Fellowship will obtain:

• $5,000 stipend for undertaking completion
• $1,500 expense price range for journey, analysis, and different reporting bills
• Professional improvement and editorial assist together with teaching, modifying, and peer studying alternatives from Work Shift editors and New America leaders
• A digital workshop organized by New America to deepen understanding of the intersection of schooling, industrial coverage, and tech-pushed financial improvement
• Access to skilled sources and information sources to assist excessive-high quality, knowledgeable reporting

Eligibility

• Open to U.S.-based journalists whose work consists of reporting on schooling (Ok-12 or postsecondary), workforce improvement, financial improvement, know-how, industrial coverage, or associated social and public coverage situation.
• They notably encourage purposes from native and regional reporters overlaying the workforce and schooling impacts of superior manufacturing, semiconductor, subsequent era power, and different know-how investments of their communities. National reporters are additionally eligible if their work focuses on place-primarily based tales and on-the-floor impacts.
• Potential fellows will likely be early- and mid-profession journalists (roughly 1-15 years of skilled reporting expertise) enthusiastic about deepening and increasing their understanding of how schooling techniques hook up with know-how-pushed financial improvement and the long run of work.
• Print, on-line, radio, TV and multimedia reporters and editors from native and nationwide publications and digital-solely information platforms are eligible. So are unbiased information podcasters, publication writers, and freelancers who goal nonpartisan media shops.
• Your application ought to state your supposed outlet and its dedication to run your undertaking. Work Shift is open to co-publishing or being the first writer on some tasks. If you want to us to be the first or secondary writer of your work, there will likely be an area so that you can point out that within the application.

Application

An entire application consists of these required parts:

• Basic applicant data (private {and professional} particulars)
• Statement of curiosity / Project proposal (500-750 phrases)
• One letter of suggestion OR an announcement of {qualifications}
• Résumé
• Links to 3 (3) work samples (present hyperlinks to 3 work samples revealed throughout the previous 5 years. Samples ought to be your greatest current work.)

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For extra data, go to New America Future of Work Reporting Fellowship.