Deadline: 27 February 2020
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking applications for Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship 2020 which gives academic and professional opportunities to women journalists committed to human rights and social justice reporting.
Benefits
- Neuffer Fellows receive a fixed monthly stipend to cover their living costs.
- The IWMF also arranges and covers the cost of housing in Cambridge and New York City for the fellow.
- The IWMF purchases round-trip economy airfare from the fellow’s place of residence to Washington, D.C., as well as transportation between the Fellowship cities.
- The fellow receives health insurance during the program.
- The Fellowship does not include a salary.
- For fellows residing outside of the United States, the Fellowship also covers the costs of applying for and obtaining a U.S. visa. The fellow is fully responsible for any additional incidental expenses and other costs.
Timeline
- The seven-month Fellowship begins in the fall and concludes in the spring every year. The program includes both an orientation and closing session in Washington, D.C.
- Neuffer Fellows are based at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts from September to January. Working with the IWMF, they design a program that will enable them to pursue academic research while improving their ability to cover human rights and social justice issues.
- Following the fall semester, Neuffer Fellows are based in New York City where they complete a full-time internship at The New York Times from February to March.
- Fellows must complete the entire seven-month program.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Neuffer Fellowship is open to women-identifying and non-binary journalists whose work focuses on human rights and social justice issues.
- All applicants for the Neuffer Fellowship must be working journalists with at least three years of full-time, professional journalism experience. Internships and journalism-related work completed as a university student do not count as professional experience. Applicants may be affiliated or freelance journalists.
- Journalists from any country around the world are eligible to apply. However, applicants must speak, read and write English fluently in order to fully participate in and benefit from the Fellowship.
For more information, visit https://iwmf.submittable.com/submit/ec995963-f6a9-4d1c-a355-f1236ec4bfbe/2020-elizabeth-neuffer-fellowship