Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards 2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards 2027. Graduate and undergraduate college students at North American schools and universities or American college students finding out overseas are invited to apply for Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards. In a typical yr, the Foundation grants 18 scholar awards for the pursuit of educational objectives.

The program is aimed primarily at serving to college students, of no matter nationality, who want to pursue worldwide journalism, slightly than returning to their nations of origin and turning into native reporters. Our program can be closely oriented towards serving to journalists launch their careers slightly than helping mid-profession professionals.

Benefits

• Winners obtain both a $3,000 scholarship for impartial work or a $4,000 fellowship for use to fund time in a bureau of a number one information group such because the Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg.

Eligibility

• An applicant have to be a school junior, senior or graduate scholar enrolled in a level program on the application deadline;
• Have demonstrated an curiosity in worldwide journalism.

Application

The application should embody the next three components:

• Cover Letter: The one-web page cowl letter ought to be autobiographical in nature and may handle such questions as how the applicant developed an curiosity in journalism and in a specific part of the world or worldwide communities or points, and the way they might use the scholarship to additional their profession in journalism. Explain any gaps or leaps in progress.
• Resume: The one-web page resume ought to emphasize previous journalism expertise in addition to language and media expertise and visa/passport standing for working abroad. Include any worldwide or home postings, freelance printed work or impartial unpublished initiatives.
• Work Sample (select one, both print, photograph, video or audio):
  • Print journalism: Applicants should submit a writing pattern of 600-800 phrases that ought to think about an space of the world or a world subject that’s in step with the applicant’s curiosity and expertise. Please point out if the work had been printed beforehand and if it have been edited or condensed, or if it’s a faculty mission. Winners have written on such various matters as taking part in blackjack on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Indian diaspora in South Sudan and a Taiwanese bookstore in mainland China. Applicants needn’t have traveled overseas to apply. Past students have gained for describing the dynamics amongst Syrians and Lebanese immigrants in a bar in Brooklyn or reporting on Ukrainian refugees on Long Island. Do not ship clips or URLs – the work must be reformatted to a standalone doc.
  • Photojournalism: Please ship one PDF of photographs or a hyperlink to an internet site the place judges can view the work on-line. An entry could also be a function, persona, or information journalism piece, and could also be both narrated or rely fully on interviews and verité. Applicants are additionally required to submit a writing pattern of roughly 500 phrases that contextualize the photographs, explaining how the photographs have been captured or their significance.
  • Video and Audio Journalism: Please ship a hyperlink the place the judges can view or take heed to the work on-line. An entry could also be a function, persona, or information journalism piece, and could also be both narrated or rely fully on interviews and verité. No entry ought to be shorter than two minutes or longer than seven minutes and may consist primarily of worldwide curiosity. Applicants are additionally required to submit a writing pattern of roughly 500 phrases that contextualize the video or audio entry, explaining how the photographs or audio have been captured or their significance in addition to the position the applicant performed within the creation of the piece. Applicants should give applicable credit score to all workforce members who participated. Each video or audio file should exhibit the total arch of the story, with a starting, center and finish.

All the weather of the application should be included into one doc (solely .docx or .pdf are allowed). Please title your doc within the format of Last name_First title. The measurement of the file shouldn’t exceed 10MB.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards.