Deadline: 10-Aug-22
The University of Southern California is seeking applications for “Center for Health Journalism” an opportunity to transform their reporting by training them to “interview the data” as if it were a human source.
This program offers training on data acquisition, cleaning, analysis and visualization led by some of the nation’s most skilled data reporters and journalism practitioners. They teach journalists how to “bulletproof” their data, ensuring accuracy in reporting.
They’re dedicated to aiding the professional development of journalists across the country at no financial cost to newsrooms. Through their programs, Fellows gain confidence, skills, sources, and new storytelling approaches so that they can tackle big investigative and explanatory stories on the circumstances that shape the health of residents of their community.
Themes
- For California Journalists:
- Topics to consider include mental health and access to mental health care; maternal health, health care access and quality of care for underserved populations; health and homelessness, systemic racism and root causes of health inequities; School-to-prison pipeline as a health issue; how where you live and the environment in which you life influences health and well-being; systemic barriers to health tied to race, poverty, and economic opportunity; ongoing health care, community and public health challenges related to COVID-19; and innovative solutions to the state’s public health and health care challenges.
- For Journalists Nationally:
- Topics to consider include child, youth and family well-being; the role of intergenerational trauma and chronic stress on health, well-being and child development; explorations of families and communities that experience historic and systemic inequities, including youth involved with the foster system; juvenile justice and child health and well-being issues, accountability and solutions journalism focused on improving prospects for children, youth and families; the intersection of race/ethnicity and/or class in child and family outcomes; strengths-based approaches to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families; creative financing and cross-agency strategies to treat and prevent the impacts of child maltreatment on children and families; and innovative solutions; and community and public health challenges related to COVID-19.
Benefits
- A $2,000 stipend to defray reporting costs.
- Fellows also are eligible to apply for five months of professional mentorship in engaged journalism and $1,000-$2,000 to support those creative efforts.
Eligibility Criteria
- Professional journalists (including freelancers). They have accepted reporters in the past across all skill and experience levels, from journalists at the smallest rural newspapers to Pulitzer prize winners at national outlets. Just come with a willingness to learn!
- Reporters with varying degrees of experience with data analysis, however applicants should have, at minimum, a basic understanding of Excel. They cater their program to the skillsets of admitted Fellows.
- They give preference to:
- Applicants who have a minimum of three years of professional journalism experience
- Reporters pursuing collaborative projects between mainstream and ethnic news outlets
- Reporting themes they support
- They embrace a broad view of health, which doesn’t just happen at doctor’s offices and hospitals. Health is shaped by their environment —their schools, their neighborhoods and their communities. They strive to admit Fellows whose Fellowship proposals reflects that.
Note: Their Fellowships are open to professional journalists. Students are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/event/2022-data-fellowship-0
