National Press Foundation Widening the Pipeline Fellowship 2025 for U.S. Journalists (Fully-funded) Deadline: 15 December, 2024

Applications are open for the National Press Foundation Widening the Pipeline Fellowship 2025. U.S. journalism has an ongoing diversity crisis. There simply are not enough reporters and editors of color to inform, engage and accurately reflect their society. To combat this, the National Press Foundation’s Widening the Pipeline Fellowship will provide expenses-paid trainings in Washington, D.C., as well as virtual workshops to support journalists of color staying in – and leading – the newsrooms of tomorrow.

In Widening the Pipeline’s first two years, 45 journalists from across America received skills training, mentoring and peer support to help them navigate America’s newsrooms, where people of color comprise less than a quarter of positions. And too often, early career journalists of color leave the industry due to lack of support and mentorship–before they can build the strategies and skills that could help them make much-needed contributions to communities across the country.

Benefits

• Through its John C. and Ethel C. Eklund Scholarship Fund, the foundation will cover airfare, hotel, some ground transportation and most meals for the two in-person trainings in Washington, D.C., held in February and December 2025.

Eligibility

• Open to U.S.-based journalists.
• Journalists from any medium with seven years or less of professional newsroom experience.
• They greatly value diversity in all their programs and applicants from across the nation are encouraged to apply.

Application

Applicants must submit a letter from their supervisors saying they will be permitted to attend all sessions. The application deadline is December 15.

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For more information, visit Widening the Pipeline Fellowship.