Jennifer Welsh

Science Writing

• Knight Science Journalism Program Fellowship — Every year, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT offers academic-year fellowships to 10 science journalists to explore science, technology, and the craft of journalism; to concentrate on a specialty in science, and to learn at some of the top research universities in the world. Fellows relocate to Boston/Cambridge for 9 months and receive a $70,000 stipend, a $2,500 relocation allowance, and other benefits, including basic health insurance for each fellow and their family. Applications due late fall.
• Connected Coastlines Grants — Offers an award of $2,000-$8,000 for staff journalists, newsrooms, and freelancers who wish to report coastal stories underpinned by recent climate science, data, or research publication or broadcast by small and regional news outlets in U.S. coastal states. Projects should be completed in less than 3 months. Applications are due in August for projects that can be completed by November. 
• The Journalists in Aging Fellows Program — A stipend of $1,500 for journalists who represent mainstream or ethnic/community news outlets in the U.S. and who are covering/wish to cover issues in aging. Fellows should produce two stories, a short-form news article and a longer-term project. Applications are due in April. 
• Peggy Girshman Idea Grant  — Grants of up to $15,000 to support projects and programs that will help science writers in their professional lives and/or benefit the field of science writing, due in September. 
• Cissy Patterson Fellowship for Science and Environmental Writers — Fellowship for science and environmental journalists engaged in rigorous, probing, spirited, independent, and skeptical work that will benefit the public. A stipend of $40,000 for twelve months and $20,000 for six months for travel and research costs for three articles. Applications are due October 1.
• Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism – $71,000 stipends to five journalism professionals for nine months of study at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Apply by March.
• NASW Diversity Reporting Grant — $1,000 grant to support freelance science writers for travel, time, and other costs as they report on how a science or health-related issue is affecting marginalized communities. Applications are due in August.
• USC Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund – Provides reporting support to journalists reporting on California communities' health-related topics. Grants of $2,000 to $10,000 and six months of mentoring while grantees work on their projects. Applications are due in October.
• USC Annenberg Health Journalism Data Fellowship — Designed for skilled journalists who want to learn to mine data sources to reveal key insights essential to high-impact journalism. Five days of training plus a $2,000 grant to support reporting. Applications are due in October.
• USC Annenberg Health Journalism National Fellowship — Designed for journalists who want to do groundbreaking reporting on vulnerable children, youth, families, and the community conditions that contribute to their well-being. Five days of in-depth training, plus reporting grant of $2,000-$10,000 and six months of mentoring. Applications are due in July.
• NASW Career Grants — up to $2,500 for projects that aim to increase the overall scope of the person's career opportunities. Offered periodically (not annually).
• The UC Berkeley - 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship —  Aimed at early and mid-career journalists, the fellowship presents an opportunity to report ambitious long-form print and audio stories on the full range of subjects under the rubric of food systems. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend to help report their story out over a one-year period and get to attend two hands-on workshops at Berkely. Applications are due in March.
• Logan Science Journalism Program at the MBL — Covers room, board, course fees, and travel for reporters to immerse themselves in the process of basic biomedical and environmental research over a ten-day span in June. Applications are due in the Fall.
• Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources Fellowships — IJNR awards fellowships to working reporters, photojournalists, writers, editors, and producers, including independent and freelance journalists. These are weeklong field visits focused on environmental topics. There are usually 3 trips per year.
• Rainforest Journalism Fund — The Rainforest Journalism Fund supports reporting on tropical rainforests in the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. Most awards fall in the range of $5,000 to $15,000 can be higher. Rolling applications.
• Society
• Rapid Response Grant from SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism — Grants up to $2500 per individual or $5000 for team or news outlet projects. Rolling deadline, currently closed.
• Lizzie Grossman Grants for Environmental Health Reporting — Funding up to $5,000 per grantee to help cover travel and expenses related to sustained coverage of a particular topic in environmental health.

Early-Career

• The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship — A fellowship for early-career science writers with fewer than two years of regular professional science writing experience. The fellowship is remote, part-time, and comes with a stipend of $4,200 over an eight-month period, during which fellows will report and write six stories for The Open Notebook. Applications are due in December.
• AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship— A 10-week summer program that places science, engineering, and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows get a stipend of $7000 for the summer as well as travel expenses. Applications are due in January.
• NPR Kroc Fellowship —Recent graduates can apply for this one-year, DC-based hands-on training in audio and digital journalism, including writing, reporting, producing, and editing. A stipend of more than $45,000 and receive benefits, including a paid vacation. Applications are due in December.
• Scripps Howard Fellowship Program — A 12-month program starting in June with four tracks (ProPublica or Newsy) pays $50,000 plus benefits. Applications are due at the end of October.
• Campus Consortium Reporting Fellowships — Fellowships for students at Campus Consortium partners to pursue international reporting projects. Provides project funding and an annual fellows weekend in DC. Applications through Campus Consortium partners.

Journalism

• Alicia Patterson Fellowship — Fellowship for journalists engaged in rigorous, probing, spirited, independent, and skeptical work that will benefit the public. A stipend of $40,000 for twelve months and $20,000 for six months for travel and research costs for three articles. Applications are due October 1.
• Education Writer's Association Reporting Fellowship — Up to $8,000 to report issues facing the education system. The deadline is in November.
• Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship — A $10,000 prize and travel expenses for field reporting or research up to $2500 to support the work and professional aspirations of underrepresented photojournalists from the United States. Applications are due in December.
• Nieman Visiting Fellowships - Focused on Racial justice and public health journalism in 2020. Fellowship for up to 20 weeks at a weekly stipend of $2,000 for 24 fellows. Applications due end of September.
• Neiman Fellowships - $75,000 stipend over a nine-month period to spend two full semesters at Harvard auditing classes with some of the university’s greatest thinkers, participating in Nieman events, and collaborating with peers. The deadline is the end of January.
  • Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation — Neiman Fellows, specifically focused on research or a specific project relating to journalism innovation and digital transformation.
• Richard C. Longworth Media Fellowships — These $10,000 fellowships promote international reporting by Chicago and Midwestern journalists. Applications seem to be rolling.
• Persephone Miel Fellowship — Help journalists from outside the U.S. and Europe pursue ambitious projects and enable them to bring their work to a broader international audience with a two-day workshop and a travel grant of $5000 for a reporting project on topics and regions of global importance. Applications are due in April.
• Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Grants — Grants from $5,000 to $10,000 for in-depth, high-impact reporting on topics of global importance, including investigations of systemic problems that are often overlooked by mainstream U.S. media. Rolling applications.
• Pulitzer Data Journalism Grants — Funding for innovative data-driven journalism projects that spotlight under-reported issues. Rolling applications.
• American Journalism Project, Civic News Organizations — Grants for social entrepreneurs who believe that local news is a public good, leading civic news organizations, and are positioned for growth.
• American Journalism Project, Racial Equity in Journalism Fund — Grants to strengthen news organizations' capacity and sustainability led by people of color and increase civic engagement for communities of color.
• Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors (FIRE) grants — Grants of up to $12,500 are provided to assist freelance reporters working on investigative stories. Rolling deadline.

Other Resources:

• Examples of successful and unsuccessful grant/fellowship applications

Science Communication

• Max Perutz Science Writing Award 2020
• Kavli's
• SciShortform
• British Science Journalist of the Year
• Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award
• Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
• Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Reporting

Journalism

• Online Journalism Awards (Submissions due in June)
• The Nine Dots Prize —  A prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues. Entrants are asked to respond to a question in 3,000 words, with the winner receiving US$100,000 to write a short book expanding on their ideas. (Submissions by January)

• Ask TON: How To Fact-Check
• Dispatches from Fact-Checking
• Brooke Borel's fabulous guide to fact-checking.

• NICAR-L Listserve

Newsletters

• The Cohort
• Women's Leadership Accelerator

Facebook Groups:

• ONA NYC
• No.1 Freelance Media Women
• SPJ Freelance Community
• Digital Media, News & Publishing Professionals
• Freelancing for Journalists
• Female Freelance Writers
• Binder full of Editors Connecting with Reporters
• Binder Full of Editors Seeking their Freelance Writers and Vice Versa
• Binders Full of Digital Journalists

Slack Groups:

• Society of Freelance Journalists
• Leapers

Zoom Meet-Ups:

• SciWri Coffee freelance meet ups

• Google's Jobs Near Me
• I've found good stuff through LinkedIn, but their emails are not useful.