Knight-Wallace Fellowships 2027-2028 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2026 (Int’l candidates) / February 1, 2027 (U.S. candidates)

Applications are open for the Knight-Wallace Fellowships 2027-2028. The Knight-Wallace Fellowships provide completed journalists two uncommon commodities: time and sources. Journalists anticipating development and deeply dedicated to the way forward for journalism spend an instructional yr on the University of Michigan to entry the sources of a world-class college and dive right into a journalism mission.

Areas of focus can embody however are usually not restricted to sharpening skilled abilities, addressing a problem going through your newsroom, digging into information and analysis for a protracted-time period reporting mission, or creating a journalism enterprise.

Program Details

• Eight-month program from late August by means of April of immersive study away from every day deadlines
• Individual journalism tasks designed to develop topical depth, achieve new abilities, tackle a newsroom problem or discover a journalism enterprise
• Specialized sources and entry to college on the University of Michigan
• Private seminars with newsroom leaders, change brokers and world-famend specialists for candid, off-the-file conversations
• Workshops to sharpen skilled abilities and management potential
• International journey to deliver context to the political, financial and social forces shaping information protection
• $85,000 stipend plus $5,000 for relocation bills distributed month-to-month from August by means of April for dwelling bills (prices for medical insurance, auditing programs, and taking part in required workshops and fellowship actions paid for by Wallace House)
• Individual relocation help and help with discovering and securing housing to fulfill every Fellow’s housing wants
• Spouses and companions are invited to take part in fellowship actions and audit college programs as properly

Eligibility

• Qualified candidates will need to have a minimal of 5 years of expertise and be presently working in some side of journalism for a information group or as an unbiased journalist.
• They are searching for a various vary of journalists, together with reporters, editors, information specialists, visible journalists, audio producers, engagement specialists, designers, builders, entrepreneurs and organizational change brokers.
• If you aren’t a full-time journalist, nearly all of your work needs to be in journalism. They don’t contemplate public relations writers, inner commerce writers, lobbyists, public advocates, or these in search of a level.
• If you’re a U.S. citizen, apply as a U.S. applicant, even should you work abroad or for a non–U.S. journalism entity. If you aren’t a U.S. citizen, apply as a world applicant, even should you work within the United States or for an American journalism entity. A Green Card will not be the identical as citizenship.

Application

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For extra data, go to Knight-Wallace Fellowships.