Justice, mental health and education reporters based in the United States can apply for a fellowship.

The Columbia Journalism School is offering fellowships for a two-day reporting workshop in Chicago titled "Covering Youth Violence: Lessons from the Front Lines."

The city of Chicago has made national headlines in the past few months because of an alarming epidemic of gun violence involving young people. Community leaders, educators and police officials have been trying to stem this violence with innovative approaches both inside and outside of schools. This workshop will look at some of those efforts and address how reporters can cover youth violence in a sophisticated way.

Speakers include Jens Ludgwig, director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab and John Sullivan of the Medill School at Northwestern University, who is the lead reporter on The Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-winning series about violence in the Philadelphia schools.

Hotel rooms will be provided for 20 out-of-town applicants.

The application deadline is October 1.

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