Past Opportunities

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will provide grant funding to support freelance reporters and producers at Black-owned news outlets. The grants aim to help ensure Black-owned media outlets are resourced with original and innovative coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its intersections within the nation’s K-12 education system. Journalists and those within Black-owned media […]

The Sinclair Broadcast Diversity Scholarship Fund was established in 2016 to provide financial support to college students interested in a career in broadcast / digital journalism, or marketing. The Fund plans to award scholarships of up to $5,000 to qualifying and deserving students from underrepresented minority groups who need financial assistance to complete their education. […]

The MJ Bear Fellowship identifies and supports digital journalists under 30 whose work represents the best of digital news. Applications for the 2023 MJ Bear Fellowship will run through April 27, 2023. The one-year fellowship is designed to provide support and guidance to early-career journalists on a digital journalism project, as well as their own professional […]

Get a jump start on 2024 election coverage at next month’s Campaign Journalism Conference. The nonpartisan University of Chicago Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will convene an intensive two-day boot camp to equip journalists with practical tools to cover increasingly more complex local and national elections. Campaign Journalism Conference 2024 […]

Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Chronic Absenteeism from School Dr. Joshua Childs is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas. He can discuss topics including: Statistics on chronic absenteeism;The academic, social, and developmental effects on children of missing significant amounts of school;Barriers that keep kids from consistently attending […]

Applications are now open for Cohort 4 of the Local Media Association (LMA) Lab for Journalism Funding! All local media companies are invited to apply to join the fourth cohort of the LMA Lab for Journalism Funding to learn how to develop reporting projects that can be funded through philanthropy. Up to 20 media companies […]

Join the Society of Professional Journalists Colorado Pro Chapter for “A Call to Action: A panel discussion on how to foster diversity and inclusion in journalism.” You’ll hear from journalists and community leaders about how diversity impacts local journalism, the importance of representation and updates on ongoing efforts to tackle these issues. Panelists include:Joie Nikita […]

Join this regional training event in Las Vegas on April 22-23, 2023, the first IRE Jeff German Investigative Workshop. The workshop honors Jeff German, a longtime Review-Journal reporter who was killed outside his home in Las Vegas on Sept. 2. A county official who was the subject of German’s reporting earlier in the year is charged with […]

From Poynter: Transform your newsroom’s reporting on crime and criminal justice with our 24-week online seminar. We’ll guide your team through a process to reimagine your work and its impact, and to craft a strategy that elevates your public safety reporting and better serves your audience. This online seminar runs form May 16, 2023– November […]