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Published: 08 Nov 2023 280 views
We are now taking applications for the 2024 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellowships. Apply Now!!!!
The Richard C. Longworth Media Fellowships, a collaboration with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, aims to promote international reporting by Chicago and Midwestern journalists.
"Financial pressures have hit Chicago and Midwestern media, especially newspapers, hard," Longworth said. "One result has been the virtual abandonment of foreign reporting, at a time when foreign events—in China, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia—have an increasing impact on our lives."
"Once, correspondents told local readers and viewers what the news from abroad meant to them," he said. "Now, not one newspaper or other outlet in our region has even one foreign correspondent on its staff, and so this local tie is lost. Our democracy depends on an informed electorate, which fails when nobody is doing the informing."
The Pulitzer Center raises awareness of underreported global issues through direct support for quality journalism across all media platforms and a unique program of education and public outreach. The video below is a quick introduction to our history and mission. Founded in 2006, we are now the largest single source of money for global enterprise reporting—and the only one incorporating this reporting into comprehensive educational programs that extend the impact of the reporting and allow students and the public to engage directly on the issues. The result is sustained... continue reading
| Application Deadline | 01 Feb 2024 |
| Country to study | United States |
| School to study | Pulitzer Center |
| Type | Fellowship |
| Course to study | View courses |
| Sponsor | Pulitzer Center |
| Gender | Men and Women |
The fellowships are made possible by a grant from The Clinton Family Fund to honor Richard C. Longworth, a former Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent and now Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council.
One or two fellowships in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 will be awarded to journalists focusing on global issues that affect Chicago and Midwestern readers and viewers.
The Richard C. Longworth Fellowships are open to print, broadcast and online journalists based in Chicago or elsewhere in the Midwest. Staff journalists as well as freelancers are eligible to apply. Field reporting should be from international locations and topics must be timely and of clear interest and importance to Chicago and Midwestern audiences.
Distribution: Proposed projects must include a credible plan for broad dissemination of the resulting work in Chicago or other Midwestern news media (print, online, and/or broadcast). Both staffers and freelancers should be able to demonstrate committed interest from editors and/or producers. For freelancers, the credibility of a distribution plan is generally most evident in an applicant's track record working with the listed outlets. Please do not have editors send letters simply stating they would consider the work. Letters from editors and/or producers who have worked with you in the past, and are interested in working with you again, are encouraged.
Applications must include the following:
Applications may also include a more detailed description of project, but this will be considered as optional supplement only. The most important part of the submission is the 250-word summary.
For more details visit: Pulitzer Center website.