Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: This week's fellowships, awards and jobs roundup
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Job Listings
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online
Fellowships & Ongoing Education
Qualifications: Early to mid-career professionals who are currently engaged in health sector work. Professionals working in, but not limited to: academia, government, health care delivery, business, research, and media.
Information: The California Data Fellowship will take place October 25-28 2017. It introduces 10 competitively-selected California journalists to a wealth of data sources that can inform and elevate their health reporting. The all-expenses-paid program, funded with generous grants from the California HealthCare Foundation and The California Endowment, includes a $2,000 reporting stipend.
Qualifications: This Fellowship is open to professional journalists from print, broadcast, and online media who are either based in California or who work for a national outlet that has a California footprint. The projects need to be primarily reported in California on topics of concern for Californians.
Initiative to Increase Diversity in Social Justice Investigative Reporting Grant, The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University
Information: IJ's Board of Directors looks for: stories that break new ground and expose wrongdoing – such as corruption, malfeasance, or misuse of power – in the public and private sectors..
Qualifications: Information: FIJ encourages proposals written for ethnic media as well as those submitted by journalists of color. Grants average $5,000 but can be as high as $10,000. They cover out-of-pocket expenses such as travel, document collection, and equipment rental. FIJ also considers requests for small stipends.
Deadline: September 25, 2017