Deadline: 7-Apr-23
Rest of World is excited to announce a new opportunity for reporters native to regions outside the West who want to produce a deeply reported body of work on how tech impacts labor and workers around the world.
Rest of World are looking for four reporting fellows to join them for a full year and produce a series of articles on tech’s relationship with labor, and the tech industry’s influence on both the nature of work and the state of workers. The fellowship is designed to engage reporters native to the regions they cover who have a basic understanding of those regions’ tech and business landscape. The reporting fellows will become part of their regular reporting team on the ground, helping shape their storytelling by contributing original ideas for stories, and working alongside their reporters and editors based around the world.
Fellows will be expected to publish at least two stories in Rest of World every month, and will have the opportunity to co-report and contribute to other labor-related stories in the publication’s pipeline. After the first six months, fellows will start work on a year-end project, in partnership with the publication’s features team, to produce a series or a single enterprise project that digs deeper on tech’s impact on workers across the regions Rest of World covers.
Benefits
- Fellows will receive a stipend of $40,000 for a 12-month period, running from mid-May 2023 to mid-May 2024. Rest of World will cover all costs related to the reporting of the stories, including travel costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Fellows will start in May 2023. They’re looking for journalists who come from, and are based in, four regions and the following countries: Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, or Vietnam), South Asia (Pakistan or Bangladesh), Sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa, Kenya, or Uganda) and Latin America (Colombia, Brazil, or Chile). All four reporting fellows will work with Rest of World’s regional editors from the corresponding regions. All applicants must be eligible to work in the countries they reside in.
- Have been working as professional reporters in their home country
- Have published original articles on issues that are critical to their communities; they’dprefer that fellows have a basic understanding of the tech and business landscape in their countries, but they don’t require that they have extensive experience in tech reporting
- Are curious about how tech has transformed the nature and definition of work, and are willing to go deep to explore the human experience and cost of such work
- Can bring their own experiences and perspectives to inform and advance the journalistic work they are undertaking
- Are passionate about writing about labor injustices and holding powerful people and companies accountable
- Want to explore new ways to tell stories, including digging into data, incorporating audio, and more
For more information, visit Rest of World.