Deadline: 1 December 2016
Entries are open for John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships 2017-18. A JSK Fellowship is a life-changing experience. Each year JSK selects fellows from around the world and bring them together for 10 months (September to June) at Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
JSK Fellows spend their time at Stanford engaged in exploring solutions to the biggest challenges facing journalism.
Funding Information
The total financial support to fellows ranges from $100,00 to $143,000.
Benefits
- Access to some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and organizations, from technology giants to hot new startups to Stanford’s 100-plus special institutes and centers.
- Opportunities to join classes taught by top-notch Stanford professors and instructors in a wide range of specialties. It is not uncommon for classes to be taught by people who also are working in the private sector.
- A rich intellectual and cultural campus life, including live theater, music and dance performances and special lectures and events.
- Fellowship social events where everyone can get to know one another. A number of these events also are open to fellows’ children.
- Spouses and partners are eligible to take classes and attend fellowship seminars just as the fellows do. Fellows’ children can attend excellent Palo Alto-area schools and are included in some special fellowship social activities.
- Exposure to the incredible diversity of world views, experiences and cultural traditions that about 20 fellows from all over the world bring to the program.
- New friendships, professional connections and entrepreneurial skills that will continue beyond your 10 months with us.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. applicants for a JSK Fellowship ideally have at least seven years of full-time professional experience; international applicants ideally have at least five years. But JSK also consider less experienced applicants with outstanding achievements.
- The fellowship considers applicants who fall into one or more of these categories:
- Journalists employed by a news organization or journalism freelancers
- Journalism entrepreneurs and innovators
- Journalism business and management executives
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships.