Workshops and Fellowships

The National Press Foundation will host a live webinar on this troubling trend, with speakers including Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for The Washington Post, and others TBA.

Hostwriter and its Armenian partner Youth Alliance via Networking invite 10 journalists to join a temporary newsroom in Armenia, expenses paid, to cover European topics from a cross-border perspective in late March 2017. Deadline: Feb 19.

The Asian American Journalists Association's program is for any professional journalist with four or more years of experience who's interested in moving ahead in the workplace and developing the necessary skills to achieve goals small and large. The 2023 ELP will be hybrid. Apply by Mar 3.

IJNR invites journalists to apply for our expenses-paid Drinking Water Institute, Apr 2-8, 2017 to Michigan, Ohio and Ontario to see how safe, clean drinking water is "made" and what issues threaten that supply. Deadline: Feb 10.

Working journalists, particularly those from developing countries, are invited to apply for an Earth Journalism Network fellowship to attend and report on the 28th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Cartagena, Colombia in July 2017. Deadline is Feb 24.

Reporting the news creates unique security risks. Protecting sources and sensitive documents is vital to a free press, but challenging due to Internet surveillance and widespread data collection. This SEJ NYC Meetup/CryptoParty NYC event in Brooklyn will cover how to securely manage sensitive information by using encryption software.

This Media Law Resource Center workshop and roundtable in Doral, Florida is for freelancers, bloggers, reporters, editors in print, digital or video spaces, podcasters — any media worker without the benefit of a legal department. Top media lawyers will give practical advice on numerous topics; editors and writers will share tips and strategies on career paths and story pitches.

Boston University's 2021 Summer Journalism Institute gives students ages 14 to 18 the opportunity to expand their skills and prepare for college during a time of uncertainly and limited travel due to ongoing pandemic. Choose from three two-week sessions. Scholarships available. Deadline: June 1, 2021.

News Hack Arizona is Feb 18-19 on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. The training is hands-on group work to learn to use sensors to collect your own data for stories. The sensors can measure noise and air quality among other things.

The Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources will bring a group of journalists to Waukesha, the first U.S. city outside of the Great Lakes watershed to receive permission to withdraw water under the Great Lakes Compact, to see how the city will get water from Lake Michigan, treat it and send it back to the basin while also discussing its bigger-picture impacts. Apply ASAP; space is limited.