NPA Foundation scholarships
The NPA Foundation is offering up to four scholarships of $2,000 each. The deadline to submit scholarship applications is February 21, 2014.
A PDF of this application form is also available on the NPA website, http://www.nebpress.com/about-npa/news/scholarship-apps/.
If you have questions about the Foundation scholarships, please contact the Nebraska Press Association office, nebpress@nebpress.com or call 402-476-2851/800-369-2850.
RTDNA scholarships
The Radio Television Digital News Association offers 8 prestigious scholarships for students pursuing careers in radio, television or online news. Broadcast media students should apply here http://www.rtdna.org/content/scholarship_info beginning Jan. 6. Deadline to apply is May 2.
Apply online at http://www.rtdna.org/content/scholarship_info
Alexia Foundation grants
Alexia Foundation offers one Professional Grant to a working photojournalist for “a story that helps further world peace and cultural understanding” and a series of grants to five student photojournalists to help fund studies or projects.
Deadline: Jan. 27, 2014 (for student grants).
Apply online at http://www.alexiafoundation.org/grants
SPJ Pulliam/Kilgore Freedom of Information Internships
Society of Professional Journalists Pulliam/Kilgore Freedom of Information Internships
SPJ takes two interns for its First Amendment legal counsel in D.C. and its National Headquarters in Indianapolis to research and contribute to its Freedom of Information report. Interns receive a stipend for a 10-week internship during the summer of 2014.
Deadline: Jan. 22, 2014
Apply online and by mail. Details here: http://www.spj.org/i-pullkilgore.asp
Google Journalism Fellowship
Fellows work at 10 different nonprofit journalism host organizations for 10 weeks, boosting their digital reporting skills. Applicants write a personal statement to the host organization, not Google, explaining their qualifications and what they hope to gain from the experience. Portfolios and samples of work help illustrate expertise and potential to succeed. The host organizations’ job descriptions might be vague, but the goal is for current students or recent graduates to personalize the fellowship to the skills they want to master.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2014
Apply online here: http://www.google.com/get/journalismfellowship/
Time Academic and Summer Internships, Lifestyle Group Fellowship
Time offers paid 10-week summer internships in different departments, including public relations, brand marketing and editorial. The Lifestyle group fellowship, based in Birmingham, Ala., offers experience to work in different departments, including Southern Living, Coastal Living, Cooking Light and Oxmoor House.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2014 (summer), March 15, 2014 (Lifestyle Group)
Apply online at http://www.timeinc.com/careers/internships.php
Reuters Global Journalism Internship (in Asia and Europe)
Reuters offers six eight-week paid internship in Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing) and six six-week paid internships in London. Interns undergo a “crash course in hands-on business, political and general news reporting” with a senior editor supervisor and guidance from a journalist mentor.
Deadline: Applications open Jan 2, 2014, deadline March 31, 2014 (U.S. internships deadline passed)
Apply online at http://careers.thomsonreuters.com/Students/Internships/Asia/Reuters-Global-Journalism-Internships/
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire multimedia fellowship
Scripps Howard Foundation Wire offers recent graduates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree a year-long multimedia fellowship in D.C. with a stipend to work on SHF Wire’s website and multimedia projects with university interns.
Deadline: April 1, 2014
Apply online at http://shfwire.com/semester-washington-post-graduate-multimedia-fellowship
Fulbright – National Geographic
Fulbright – National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship gives up to five applicants the chance to travel for nine months overseas to work on a multimedia storytelling project of global significance. Fellows receive Fulbright benefits to cover travel, stipend and health as well as training in digital storytelling and a National Geographic editor to mentor them. Their ongoing work will appear on the National Geographic website.
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2014 at 5 p.m. ET
Apply online only at http://us.fulbrightonline.org/fulbright-nat-geo-fellowship