2025/2026 Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalisat Colombia University ( $70,000 Stipend and Fully Funded) Deadline: 31 January, 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. The fellowship is named for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which established an endowment for the program, and Walter Bagehot (pronounced BADGE-it), the 19th­-century editor of The Economist. The program also depends on grants from a number of other charitable foundations, corporations and publishing organizations for a significant portion of its annual budget.

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship offers experienced journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding of business and economics, finance and technology. Fellows spend two semesters at Columbia Journalism School and take most of their classes at Columbia Business School. They meet weekly for off-the-record seminars and dinners with top journalists, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders.

Fellowship Highlight

• Deepen your skills. Take core MBA classes such as corporate finance, accounting and economics and choose from high-level journalism classes like investigative techniques, book writing and data reporting.
• Get paid to learn. Receive full tuition, health insurance and $7,800 a month. Subsidized Columbia housing is also available.
• Expand your access. Attend private weekly meetings with industry executives. Choose from daily offerings of lectures and workshops with top journalists and business leaders. Join the Knight-Bagehot alumni network of 400+ former fellows working in news organizations around the world.
• Step back to step forward. Use the break from deadlines and newsroom responsibilities to chart your next challenges.

Benefits

• Tuition at Columbia is fully covered. Each fellow will also receive a stipend of $70,000 for the nine-month program. The money is paid in two installments (Sept. and Feb.) with no taxes withheld (but it is taxable, so you will have to factor that into your budget). The fellowship pays for health insurance for one person (family coverage is extra) and various academic and facility fees. Subsidized student housing is also available.
• The program does not pay for routine living expenses, textbooks, travel, local transportation, gym memberships, special programs, student club fees, transcript verification, fines or parking.

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Application Deadline: 31 January, 2025.