One Year Fellowship for Journalists on oceans by Pulitzer Center
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Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Age
- No specific age required
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Job locationTurkey
Needed documentsCV, Motivation Letter, Research Proposal, Sample of your work, Recommendation Letter, Essay, Application form
Opportunity description
Pulitzer Center is offering Fellowships that gives professional journalists the opportunity to spend a whole year working on an in-depth or investigative ocean story. The network will establish a collaborative ecosystem of journalists around the world. Together, they will uncover the harmful and illegal practices of the fishing and extractive industries, systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities.
Benefits
- Access to data and documents as well as the opportunity to sharpen your data skills with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Data and Research team.
- Specialized training opportunities such as the use of satellite imagery and other digital tools.
- The opportunity to work and collaborate with other journalists on stories that transcend your country and region and can achieve true global impact.
- A community of like-minded colleagues that will continue beyond your Fellowship.
- The possibility of renewing your Fellowship for an additional one or two years, based on performance.
- Salaries commensurate with experience.
Eligibility criteria
- Experienced journalists with a proven track record of investigative or in-depth ocean or environmental reporting.
- Journalists with a solid understanding of ocean issues and the scientific, environmental, social, legal, political, and commercial forces at play.
- Staff or freelance journalists working on a wide range of platforms, including print, radio, video, and multimedia.
- Team players with the experience and/or ability to work collaboratively.
- Reporters with a deep interest in how AI impacts the world, and why this issue matters to our global well-being.
- Reporters willing to participate in outreach activities related to their investigations, such as events at schools and universities.
- Reporters can be based anywhere. The Fellowships are remote.
Required Documents:
- A short statement of purpose: How this Fellowship fits in your career path and why you are best positioned to be an Fellow. (500 words)
- A detailed description of the reporting project you seek to pursue during your Fellowship. (800 words)
- A plan for how your project will be published and distributed, which audiences you want to reach, and how you will engage them. (500 words)
- A budget that lays out anticipated costs of the project.
- Three examples (links) of your best stories published in the past three years.
- A letter of commitment or interest from a media organization(s) that would publish your story(ies).
- Three professional references: These can be either contact information or letters of recommendation.
- A letter of support from your media employer or a newsroom that has agreed to host you as a Ocean Reporting Network Fellow and publish your work.
- A copy of your curriculum vitae.
About Pulitzer Center:
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in the United States is an award-winning, non-profit news organization that partners with journalists and newsrooms to support in-depth reporting on critical global issues to educate the public, promote solutions, and improve lives.
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