Note: Application deadlines are approximate and may vary by year.
AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellowships: will expose selected journalists to sessions on epidemiology, global disease prevention efforts, pandemic flu preparedness, climate change, vaccine safety, obesity, autism and more. Fellows will tour the CDC director's National Emergency Operations Center, meet new sources on policy and research, and learn how to tap the agency's abundant resources to produce better stories.
Length: 1 week
Location: Atlanta, GA
Application Deadline: December
http://www.healthjournalism.org/CDCfellowshipapp.php
California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships: offer journalists a chance to step away from the newsroom to hone their skills in health care journalism. During hands-on workshops, field trips and seminars, fellows hear from prize-winning journalists and leaders in health and medicine. Panels and sessions address major issues in health reporting, as well as practical tips for broadcast and multimedia journalists in this era of tightening budgets and 24-hour news cycles. Fellows return to their newsrooms armed with ideas on how to produce compelling stories for broadcast and the Web, covering the complex health issues of our diverse society.
Length: two 3-day sessions, spaced three months apart, with guidance and support from senior journalists as they complete Fellowship projects back in their newsrooms.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Application Deadline: May
http://annenberg.usc.edu/Home/CentersandPrograms/ProfessionalEducation/C...
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University: teaches, engages in and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life and culture.
Length: semester and summer courses, ongoing
Location: Durham, NC
Application Deadline: varies
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Center for Environmental Journalism Ted Scripps Fellowships: This academic program allows eligible professional journalists to acquire knowledge necessary to cover the environment more effectively and enrich the public's understanding of this crucial subject. Fellows deepen their knowledge of the environment through courses, weekly seminars and field trips. They also engage in independent study expected to lead to a significant piece of journalistic work.
Length: 9 months, mid-August through mid-May
Location: Boulder, CO
Application Deadline: March
http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/cej/scripps_fellowships/index.html
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing New Horizons Traveling Fellowships: to cover the costs of attending the New Horizons in Science briefing. This annual conference brings together distinguished scientists from a wide range of disciplines to discuss breaking developments in science, medicine, technology and the environment. The fellowships are intended primarily for U.S. journalists from publications and broadcast outlets that do not routinely cover major science meetings or employ a full-time science writer.
Length: 5 days
Location: varies
Application Deadline: August
http://casw.org/fellowships.htm
Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources Expeditions: These expenses-paid fellowships are designed for reporters and editors who aspire to produce deeper, more explanatory news coverage of issues that affect growth, economic development, rural communities, natural resources and the environment. Learning expeditions help reporters and editors at all career stages to gain perspective and understanding and to become better storytellers. Mid-career, early-career and veteran reporters and editors from a diverse range of newspapers, magazines, broadcast operations and on-line news organizations are chosen to participate.
Length: 1 week – 10 days
Location: varies
Application Deadline: varies
http://www.ijnr.org/programs/expeditions.htm
Journalism Center on Children & Families: Five-day annual fellowships give journalists the opportunity to build their knowledge of child/family issues and enhance their reporting skills. Two-day conferences help journalists find fresh angles on emerging topics. Fellowships give you up-close, on-the-record access to top experts. You’ll fill your notebook with story ideas and sources and make connections that last long after you return to the newsroom.
Length: 5-day fellowships, 2-day conferences
Location: 5-day – College Park, MD, 2-day – varies
Application Deadline: varies
http://www.journalismcenter.org/fellowships/index.html
Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellowships in Health: provide a project-based, flexible opportunity for print, broadcast, and online journalists to pursue an area of interest in U.S. health policy issues. Fellows complete an individually designed research project or field practicum, meet regularly with other Kaiser Media Fellows and with a range of leading experts, policymakers, journalists and others in the health field, and participate in a series of program site visits.
Length: 9 months
Location: varies
Application Deadline: March
http://www.kff.org/mediafellows/fellowshipsinhealth/index.cfm
Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley
Multimedia Workshops: Attendees should be print and broadcast reporters and editors who want to make the transition to multimedia journalism and professional journalists engaged in preparing their news organizations for convergence. Participants produce publication-ready multimedia stories using proven journalistic story-telling techniques and the latest hardware and software.
Length: 6 days
Location: Berkeley, CA
Application Deadline: varies
Technology Training Workshops: provide hands-on, newsroom-focused training on technologies driving innovation in reporting. Workshop fellows create database-driven map mash-ups, use GPS for hyperlocal news, create and post to blogs, create audio, video and .pdf podcasts, and create identities and participate in social networking sites.
Length: 4 days
Location: Berkeley, CA
Application Deadline: varies
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/workshops/
Knight Digital Media Center at UCS Annenberg: provides competitive fellowships for New Media journalists seeking to improve their critical thinking and beat reporting skills, as well as help for the newsroom leader managing change in a dynamic era. Applicants to issue-oriented seminars or professional growth workshops must be currently employed as professional multimedia journalists and have a minimum of three years of experience.
Length: varies
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Application Deadline: varies
http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/home/
Knight Science Boot Camps at MIT: for experienced journalists who are interested in the Knight Science Fellowship but can’t get nine months off. The week-long intensive boot camps and workshops focus on a variety of topics from nanotechnology to food science. Journalists learn from top scientists and policy makers.
Length: 1 week
Location: Cambridge, MA
Application Deadline: varies
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/bootcamps/current.html
Knight Science Fellowships at MIT: offer experienced journalists the opportunity to increase their understanding and improve their coverage of science, technology, medicine and/or the environment. A Fellow's work usually includes courses audited at MIT and Harvard, attendance at departmental colloquia, field trips, lab visits, interviews, reading and writing. Each Fellow designs his or her own course of study in discussion with the director. Some Fellows audit three or four courses. Others choose to spend time in a lab.
Length: 9 months
Location: Cambridge, MA
Application Deadline: March
http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/fellowships/overview.html
Marine Biological Laboratory Logan Science Journalism Program: provides professional science journalists, editors and broadcast journalists a chance to forget about story deadlines and the latest breakthroughs, and instead immerse themselves in the process of basic biomedical and environmental research. Journalists work hand-in-hand with laboratory investigators and in many cases are given research projects of their own. They return to their jobs with a fuller sense of what it means to be a scientist, and a renewed sense of their mission as science journalists.
Length: varies
Location: varies
Application Deadline: March
http://www.mbl.edu/sjp/index.html
Marine Biological Laboratory Summer Fellowship and Research Awards: provide costs for research and housing, and also enable awardees to benefit from the rich intellectual and interactive environment of the scientific community at the MBL. Proposals for Fellowship support will be considered in, but are not limited to, the following fields of investigation: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Microbiology, Neurobiology, Physiology and Tissue Engineering.
Length: 6 weeks – 3 months
Location: Woods Hole, MA
Application Deadline: January
http://www.mbl.edu/research/summer/fellowships_general.html
Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
Annual Workshop for Journalists: a week-long immersion program fellowship in marine and environmental sciences, available to 12-14 journalists. The workshop emphasizes basic methods of scientific research, the principles and ethics that guide scientific inquiry, and how to analyze and interpret data.
Length: 1 week
Location: Narragansett, RI
Application Deadline: January
http://www.metcalfinstitute.org/fellowships/sciences.htm
Diversity in Environmental Reporting Fellowships: a 42-week science and reporting fellowship available to traditionally under-represented racial or ethnic minority journalists. Fellowship offers an opportunity to learn basic science, gain environmental research and reporting skills, and apply new knowledge and skills in a long-term reporting assignment. The fellowship program supports diversity, science training and informed reporting on the environment.
Length: 42 weeks
Location: varies
Application Deadline: February
http://www.metcalfinstitute.org/fellowships/diversity.htm
National Tropical Botanical Garden Environmental Journalism Fellowships: provide working journalists in broadcast, print and online media much-needed information about tropical ecosystems, and provide deep background in tropical ecology to enhance the accuracy of reporting on science and environmental issues.
Length: 1 week
Location: Kalaheo, HI
Application Deadline: March
http://www.ntbg.org/programs/education-crsint.php
Poynter Institute Seminars: Whether you're a beat reporter or a new manager, a producer breaking ground online or on-the-air, a photojournalist or a designer, a future journalist or a journalism teacher, a publisher or station owner, Poynter can help you get better at what you do. We want you to be equipped with new tools and ideas to handle the challenges of producing quality news reports, programs and publications, and with new ways of thinking about the work that you do. Seminars include Ethics and Diversity, Leadership and Management, Online and Multimedia, Reporting, Writing and Editing, and TV and Radio.
Length: varies
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Application Deadline: varies
http://www.poynter.org/seminar/
The Rosalyn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism: Mental illnesses constitute some of the most serious, unrecognized, and under-reported health problems in the United States and around the world. As part of an international effort to reduce stigma and discrimination, The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism provide stipends to journalists to report on topics related to mental health or mental illnesses. Each fellow is matched with a Journalism Fellowship Advisory Board member who will serve as a mentor, provide technical assistance and information about complex mental health issues, and share professional contacts within their field of expertise.
Length: 1 year
Location: varies
Application Deadline: April
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/fellowships/index.html
The SALT Institute for Documentary Studies: trains aspiring writers, radio producers, and photographers in the art of documentary storytelling — creating thought-provoking, richly worded stories. In the process, our students struggle to find their own voice, learn to sit comfortably with discomfort, and to ask hard questions not only of their subjects, but also of themselves. We encourage students to value and pursue truth, using journalistic skills and ethics to produce powerful, fair-minded, technically astute documentary work.
Length: 15 weeks
Location: Portland, ME
Application Deadline: April
http://www.salt.edu/
USC Annenberg National Health Journalism Fellowships: explore the intersection between community health, health policy and the nation’s growing diversity. In field trips and seminars, program participants learn about health trends, policy innovations and political conflicts involving health care. Fellows emerge with a broader and more nuanced awareness of immigrant health, health disparities, access to care, farm worker health and the nation’s frayed safety net. They will gain a deeper understanding of health reform initiatives around the country – exploring how current efforts fit into a larger history of big ideas, colliding interests and political battles.
Length: 1 week
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Application Deadline: August
http://annenberg.usc.edu/CentersandPrograms/ProfessionalEducation/Calend...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship: designed to introduce science communicators to the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields of oceanography and ocean engineering. Through seminars, laboratory visits and brief field expeditions, Ocean Science Journalism Fellows gain access to new research findings and to fundamental background information in engineering, marine biology, engineering, geology and geophysics, marine chemistry and geochemistry, and physical oceanography. Topics range from harmful algal blooms to deep-sea hydrothermal vents; from seafloor earthquakes to ice-sheet dynamics; from the ocean’s role in climate change to the human impact on fisheries and coastline change; from ocean instruments and observatories to underwater robots.
Length: 1 week
Location: Woods Hole, MA
Application Deadline: May
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8887