Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship 2024 For Senior and Mid Career Journalists (Funded) Deadline: 21 February 2024

For senior and mid-career journalists who want to enhance their reporting on violence, conflict, and tragedy while also expanding their understanding of emotional trauma and psychological injury, the Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship is a special seminar program.

It can be extremely difficult to report on traumatic events in a responsible and credible manner. Examples of such events include family violence and street crime, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide, pandemics, and social upheaval. Outstanding journalists from all over the world have gathered at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism project, since 1999 to discuss important topics pertaining to news coverage of violence, trauma, and tragedy.

Fellows participate in a rigorous week-long seminar program at New York City’s Columbia University. Program activities include talks with colleagues in the media about ethics, craft, and practice; briefings by well-known interdisciplinary experts in the fields of trauma and mental health; and numerous other chances for scholarly interaction and peer education.

Quick Details:

• Offered by: Columbia University
• Location: New York, United States
• Deadline: 21 February 2024
• Duration:  July 30 – August 5, 2024
• Number of opportunities: 12 – 14 Fellows
• Type: Fellowship
• Gender: Any
• Eligible Nations: All

Benefits:

• The Ochberg Fellowship pays for round-trip airfare, lodging for seven nights, meals, and other direct participation-related costs like ground transportation. Health insurance, extra nights of lodging beyond the Fellowship’s duration, and ground transportation within the fellows’ home cities are not covered by the program.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Outstanding journalists from anywhere in the world who have worked in any media and have at least five years of professional journalism experience are eligible for the Ochberg Fellowships.
• Former Fellows have included war photographers and foreign correspondents for major international news agencies, as well as general assignment and crime reporters from small towns and regional newspapers.
• Freelancers and staff journalists are both encouraged to apply.
• The work of applicants must exhibit superior journalism and a solid background in reporting on trauma and its effects on people, families, and communities.
• Reporters, photographers, editors, producers, and broadcasters with at least five years of experience in professional journalism are eligible to apply for the Fellowship.
• The Fellows will be distributed among Latin America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific area, Africa, and the Middle East, with about half of them based in North America.
• The language used for all fellowship seminars is English. For fellows to take part in the program, they must speak English fluently.

Selection Criteria:

Judges look at a variety of factors, with a focus on whether applicants:

• Show consistent and thoughtful journalistic engagement with issues of violence, conflict, tragedy, and their aftermath.
• Have demonstrated journalistic excellence and leadership throughout their journalism careers;
• Will likely benefit personally and professionally from the Fellowship experience and contribute meaningfully to the program and fellows cohort.

Other considerations may include geographic and other diversity, as well as overall group composition.

Documents Requirement:

In order to submit a completed application, you will need:

• CV
• Motivition Letter
• Two Recomendation Letter
• Two relevant work samples

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