UC Berkeley offers year-long investigative fellowship
With cutbacks hitting newsrooms across the country, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is hoping to help encourage a new generation of investigative reporters through year-long fellowships.
The school is accepting applications now for the investigative reporting fellowships, which will be awarded in May. The fellows will be chosen based on their qualifications, potential and on the proposed area they intend to investigate.
Fellowships will be administered by the school's Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) and the program's advisory board.
In the coming year, the investigative program will focus on corporate corruption, particularly the way some U.S. companies operate overseas.
Entries for the 2008-2009 fellowships are urged to present detailed areas of inquiry within this broad subject area. Proposals could include print and broadcast components as well as multimedia projects for the Internet.
Fellows will be paid a stipend of $45,000, which will include health benefits. They also will be able to audit UC Berkeley classes and use campus research facilities.
“More than last year, supporting the development and practice of in-depth journalism in the public interest is critical given continuing cutbacks in broadcast and print newsrooms across the country,” says Lowell Bergman, the director of the Investigative Reporting Program. “The IRP’s fellowship program is unique in the country. Our goal is to provide a model for academic and non-profit organizations everywhere who are dedicated to nurturing the kind of critical cutting-edge reporting that makes democracy possible.”
Deadline for applications for the academic year 2008-2009 is April 1. Recipients will be announced on May 17 and the fellows' year-long tenure will begin on Sept. 1.
The application can be found at: http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ Job # 008023.
For additional details on the fellowship program, contact IRP Deputy Director Marlena Telvick at (510) 643-1299 or e-mail investigativereportingprogram@berkeley.edu.
The school is accepting applications now for the investigative reporting fellowships, which will be awarded in May. The fellows will be chosen based on their qualifications, potential and on the proposed area they intend to investigate.
Fellowships will be administered by the school's Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) and the program's advisory board.
In the coming year, the investigative program will focus on corporate corruption, particularly the way some U.S. companies operate overseas.
Entries for the 2008-2009 fellowships are urged to present detailed areas of inquiry within this broad subject area. Proposals could include print and broadcast components as well as multimedia projects for the Internet.
Fellows will be paid a stipend of $45,000, which will include health benefits. They also will be able to audit UC Berkeley classes and use campus research facilities.
“More than last year, supporting the development and practice of in-depth journalism in the public interest is critical given continuing cutbacks in broadcast and print newsrooms across the country,” says Lowell Bergman, the director of the Investigative Reporting Program. “The IRP’s fellowship program is unique in the country. Our goal is to provide a model for academic and non-profit organizations everywhere who are dedicated to nurturing the kind of critical cutting-edge reporting that makes democracy possible.”
Deadline for applications for the academic year 2008-2009 is April 1. Recipients will be announced on May 17 and the fellows' year-long tenure will begin on Sept. 1.
The application can be found at: http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ Job # 008023.
For additional details on the fellowship program, contact IRP Deputy Director Marlena Telvick at (510) 643-1299 or e-mail investigativereportingprogram@berkeley.edu.
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