Past Opportunities

ONA is offering five types of scholarships to ensure a more inclusive and accessible event. These opportunities include support for journalists typically underrepresented in newsrooms, students and early career professionals, local reporters, caregivers and digital journalists working in micro newsrooms. This opportunity is open to ONA’s global community. ONA is reviewing applications in three phases: […]

The fourth-annual LION Publishers Local Journalism Awards will recognize excellence achieved by local independent online news businesses in 12 award categories focused on LION’s pillars of sustainability — journalistic impact, financial health and operational resilience.   The 2022 LION Awards will be celebrated at the Independent News Sustainability Summit in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.  Click here to […]

The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) is calling for entries to the Nonprofit News Awards, or INNYs, honoring excellence in journalism, leadership and community service across the field of nonprofit news. These awards are open to INN full or provisional members in good standing. The deadline for entries is Friday, July 8, 2022 at 11:59 […]

Have you done important work from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022 that features deep original reporting in the public interest? The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards honor outstanding reporting across platforms without defined categories. The duPont screeners and jury look for outstanding journalism in the public service, evidence of commitment to important stories […]

The MJ Bear Fellowship identifies and supports digital journalists under 30 whose work represents the best of digital news. 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 development. Themes for projects may include audience and social engagement, product development, […]

Age Boom Academy’s signature online media training will focus on the informal caregiving economy in the United States and the opportunity costs for society as well as for individual caregivers, and for healthy longevity. The Columbia Aging Center’s signature media training was founded by globally-recognized geriatric pioneer Robert N. Butler, MD, and prize-winning New York […]

Join us later this month for an important conversation about the impact of misinformation on our local communities — especially communities of color.  The Colorado News Collaborative, the Institute for Science and Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Colorado State University’s Center for Public Deliberation will host a two-part in-person event […]

“Racism in medicine is a national emergency.”  That’s how journalist Nicholas St. Fleur characterized the crisis facing American health care this spring, as his team at STAT embarked on “Color Code,” an eight-episode series exploring medical mistrust in communities of color across the country. When?  June 28, 2022, from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. MT […]

 Join the American Press Institute for a discussion Monday, June 27, 2022, on how publishers are building upon experiments with practical guides, messaging services and more, including lessons that may help guide outreach and coverage for the fall 2022 elections. This open Zoom discussion on Monday, June 27, at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) will focus […]