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IJNet Opportunities for Journalism Fellowships, Jobs & Awards

IJNet is a unique source for worldwide job opportunities for journalists, journalism fellowships, grants, contests, internships, scholarships and awards. We continually aggregate current postings in multiple languages to provide a comprehensive resource for citizen and professional journalists.

Journalism Fellowships, Jobs, Scholarships and Grants are available in the following categories:

Journalism Fellowships, Conferences, Classes

Improve your journalism and media skills: IJNet posts fellowships all over the world where you can focus on special topics and attend sessions with the experts. Journalists and students can enroll in online courses to hone data gathering, reporting, digital and media skills. Find out what conferences are offered in your region and network with other journalists while expanding your knowledge in your chosen specialty.

Job Opportunities for Journalists

Looking for a new challenge? IJNet posts all types of media and journalism opportunities. Whether you’re considering a foreign correspondent post and need tips on how to prepare, investigating a position as a social media expert in the newsroom, or interested in becoming a journalism educator, IJNet opportunities are updated daily and available as a resource in your job search.

Internships & Scholarships

Students studying journalism can apply for paid internships and scholarships to enhance their education. Workshop scholarships designed to teach relevant knowledge in different world regions and encourage independent reporting are available to professional print, broadcast or online journalists. Individuals from developing countries can receive full scholarships covering travel, accommodation, insurance, tuition fees and meal allowances.

Contests and Grants

Cash prizes and/or all-expense paid trips are available to winners of various contests in photography, multimedia, storytelling, emerging student journalism and a variety of other disciplines. View IJNet opportunities for grants that cover tuition and other expenses for 2-year M.A. Journalism programs, other continuing education and special projects.

Register at IJNET today for access to a vast listing of journalism fellowships and opportunities, grants, scholarships and job listings for citizen and professional journalists.

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  • WAN urges World Bank to support independent media

    Date: 12/16/98

    The World Bank should make support of independent media an ?investment priority? in its mission countries, and doing so would best serve the organization?s own interests, said the chief executive of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).

    Timothy Balding, WAN Director General, spoke at a World Bank meeting in early October and urged consideration of the role unfettered media can play in assuring the proper administration of financial aid programs.

  • Journalists in nuclear, security affairs invited to seek fellowship

    Date: 12/16/98

    The Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science invites journalists from outside the United States who report on international security and nuclear affairs to apply for a three-month fellowship at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago.

    The International Visiting Fellows Program aims to create a network of talented writers who can look beyond geographic, cultural and religious boundaries as they report on issues of peace and global security. Six fellowships will be awarded.

  • Jordan conference to consider state of media in Europe, Mediterranean

    Date: 12/16/98

    A conference, Culture and Communication in the Global Information Society, will be held November 22-25 in Amman, Jordan.

    The event's organizers, the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy, the Sean MacBride Round Table and the Jemstone Network, note that the conference is to take place during the 50th anniversary year of the Declaration of Human Rights.

    Good journalism and media are threatened by political and commercial pressures everywhere.

  • Thomson Foundation public relations workshop set for October

    Date: 12/16/98

    The Thomson Foundation plans a workshop on international public relations, October 4-30, at its headquarters in Cardiff, Wales. The workshop is intended for media and public relations practitioners who seek more experience, information officers for government services or NGOs, managers appointed to posts that include media and/or public relations responsibilities, and journalists with more than three years' experience who want to move into media and/or public relations. The course language is English.

  • Journalism graduates invited to seek human rights fellowships

    Date: 12/16/98

    Applicants who will have completed a graduate program in journalism no later than June 1999 are invited to apply for Fellowships in International Human Rights offered by Human Rights Watch.

    Fellows will work for a year with one or more of the group's divisions in New York or Washington. They monitor and report on rights developments in various countries, conduct one or more on-site investigations and work to publicize and curtail rights violations.

  • West African Journalists Association plans conference, triennial congress

    Date: 12/16/98

    The West African Journalists Association (WAJA) is looking forward to its next major activity, its fourth Triennial Conference and Congress, scheduled for Banjul, Gambia, in February 1999, according to WAJA president, Kabral Blay-Amihere.

    WAJA is based in Accra, Ghana, the site of the last congress in 1996. Earlier congresses were held in Cotonou, Benin, in 1990 and Dakar, Senegal, in 1986.

  • Pan-African, Canadian groups seek underreported stories on corruption

    Date: 12/16/98

    According to a press release from the Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa (NDIMA), October 16 is the deadline for media organizations to submit published articles for the first index of underreported stories on political or private corruption.

  • Nonprofit group asks journalists to join its human rights struggle

    Date: 12/16/98

    Reebok Award Winners Network, an international organization dedicated to the respect of human rights, is seeking contacts with journalists around the world who share the network's concern for rights issues.

    African and Latin American journalists are especially sought by the group, known as RAW Network. The network intends that the journalists would compose stories about human rights abuses as well as RAW Network's advocacy in such situations.

  • Commonwealth Press Union offers variety of fellowships

    Date: 12/16/98

    African journalists and their counterparts around the world who work for Commonwealth newspapers that are members of the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) may be eligible to apply for several fellowships.

    Twelve Commonwealth editors or senior journalists will be selected for the Harry Brittain Fellowship. During May and June 1999, the fellows will spend six weeks in the United Kingdom learning how British news media function and examining their political, economic and social infrastructures.