Workshops and Fellowships

This intensive online course, run by full-time freelance journalist Abigail Edge, is an inspired DIY retreat for any freelance journalist feeling the urge to take stock and refresh their career goals. Over the course of four weeks we'll cover everything from pitching and ideas to branding and business skills, with Q&A sessions.

National Press Foundation will offer a free online training program for 25 journalists to help them track how federal pandemic assistance funds are being used. The training will be held for two hours per day from July 13-17 (10 hours total). Fellows will be offered subsequent confidential follow-up sessions with experts and data analysts to help them bring their stories to successful publication.

This Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources workshop in Missoula, MT, will connect journalist attendees with experts regarding the ecological, economic, social and public health impacts of wildfire. Open to first 20 registrants; $25 registration fee includes lodging, meals and local transportation.

Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West is offering a single media fellowship with a $5,000 stipend for three months’ work. The grant will fund a journalist illuminating crucial issues about the region. Apply by Oct 9, 2023.

Missoula, Montana-based Freeflow Institute is offering a three-part winter workshop series in Montana: Alexis Bonogofsky and Ronan Donovan / 29 Feb-1 Mar, 2020; Ben Stookesberry / 28-29 Mar, 2020; and Chris La Tray / 25-26 Apr, 2020. Sign up for one or all.

Missoula, Montana-based Freeflow Institute is offering a three-part winter workshop series in Montana: Alexis Bonogofsky and Ronan Donovan / 29 Feb-1 Mar, 2020; Ben Stookesberry / 28-29 Mar, 2020; and Chris La Tray / 25-26 Apr, 2020. Sign up for one or all.

Missoula, Montana-based Freeflow Institute is offering a three-part winter workshop series in Montana: Alexis Bonogofsky and Ronan Donovan / 29 Feb-1 Mar, 2020; Ben Stookesberry / 28-29 Mar, 2020; and Chris La Tray / 25-26 Apr, 2020. Sign up for one or all.

This non-residential paid fellowship opportunity is for activists and investigative journalists to spend a year deep-diving into one pressing social justice challenge. The next Bertha Challenge will begin in Jan 2024 with a focus on food. Deadline is Jul 4, 2023.

Are you a journalist in the U.S. Mountain West who wants to produce more in-depth clean energy, environmental and climate stories for your news outlet? InsideClimate News' next regional workshop will be held March 23-24, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The deadline to apply is Feb. 3.