Africa is closer than imagined Ethel Payne Ethel Payne was “The First Lady of the Black Press.” NABJ seeks to award at least two Ethel Payne Fellowships to journalists interested in obtaining international reporting experience through assignments in Africa. The Ethel Payne Fellowships bear the name of a journalist who covered seven U.S. presidents and was a war correspondent. But it was her work in Africa as a foreign correspondent that prompted NABJ to create the fellowships. Application deadline is December 15. Learn more…

Ethel Payne commemorated on U.S. postage stamp My Friend Ethel Payne honored on a postage stamp, by Askia Muhammad Ethel Payne Fellowship application Previous Winners of Ethel Payne Fellowship and their work

Other fellowships:

• AJR Newslinks
  
• Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
  
• Casey Journalism Center Fellowships for Professional Journalists
  Professional journalists compete to attend intensive conferences on major themes in child and family reporting, such as adolescent development, juvenile justice and child welfare.
• Center for Investigative Reporting
  
• The Charles Jackson Fellowship at the Maynard Institute
  
• Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot Journalism Fellowship
  
• Criminal Justice Fellowships
  The Institute for Justice and Journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication seeks applications from experienced print, television and radio journalists across the United States.
• Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
  
• Freedom Forum
  
• International Women's Media Foundation
  
• The Kaiser Media Fellowships Program
  This program will award up to ten mini-fellowships to print, radio and television journalists to research and report on HIV/AIDS issues in the United States or overseas.
• 2004 Kaiser Media Fellowships in Urban Health Reporting
  The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring an internship for young minority journalists interested in specializing in urban public health reporting. Internships begin June 2004.
• The Independent Press Association
  has announced the start of the 2001-02 application cycle for the George Washington Williams Fellowship, which was created to encourage journalists of color to pursue important social issues in the public interest.
• John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists
  
• Knight Foundation
  
• Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT
  Journalists who have at least three years of experience covering science, medicine, technology or the environment (or who have five years of journalistic experience and wish to prepare themselves to cover these fields) are eligible to apply for fellowships that allow them to study for one academic year at MIT and Harvard University.
• McCormick Tribune Foundation
  
• National Press Foundation
  
• Nieman Foundation for Journalists
  
• North American Journalist Exchange
  (Sponsored by The Freedom Forum; link requires Acrobat Reader)
• The Alicia Patterson Foundation
  
• Pew Charitable Trust
  
• The Pew International Journalism Program
  
• Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
  
• 2004 RTNDF Broadcast News Management Fellowships
  The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation Broadcast News Management Fellowship program will send 10 journalists of color to selected leadership and management training programs for news professionals during 2004.
• Washington Press Club Foundation
  
• Judith L. Weidman Racial Ethnic Minority Fellowship
  
• PayneAwards for Ethics in Journalism
  
• Society of Environmental Journalists of Color Fellowship
  To bring into balance reporting by and for underrepresented populations in the geosciences, SEJ, in conjunction with the Earth and Environmental Science Journalism Program of Columbia University and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, invites U.S. minority journalists to apply for fellowships to underwrite costs of attending SEJ's 14th Annual Conference, October 20-24, 2004, in Pittsburgh, PA. Application deadline: July 6.