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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.

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  • African TV journalists are eligible for Mohamed Amin Fellowship

    Date: 12/16/98

    The Reuter Foundation awards the annual Mohamed Amin Fellowship to African television journalists. Fellows spend an academic year at the Centre for Journalism Studies at the University of Wales in Cardiff.

    The study program strongly emphasizes the practical basics of journalism--writing, reporting and interviewing for television, technical and practical skills needed to get stories on the air, and the attitudes, news sense, judgment and discipline the profession demands.

  • Senegal center trains journalism students, professionals

    Date: 12/16/98

    The Center for the Study of Information Sciences and Techniques (CESTI) is a regional school that serves most of the countries of West Africa. CESTI, which is an institute of Sheik Anta Diop University in the capital, Dakar, instructs journalism students from 10 French-speaking African countries and also from Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.

    The center awards a bachelor's degree in journalism in three years, and it also offers advanced training courses to practicing journalists.

  • Online magazine examines communications law, policy

    Date: 12/16/98

    The International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP)--an electronic law magazine--has appeared on the Internet. The journal treats a wide range of topics relating to structural and behavioral regulation and policy in the converging sectors of computing, telecommunications and broadcasting. Peer-reviewed articles, works in progress, and book and conference reviews published by international authors will be featured in the journal.

  • African journalists sharpen skills at Tunisian center

    Date: 12/16/98

    The African Center for Improvement of Journalists and Communicators allows working journalists from across the continent--both Arab and sub-Saharan Africans--to refine their journalistic skills at the center in Tunisia.

    The center, known by the French-language acronym of CAPJC, is dedicated to the continuous training of journalists and communicators. The training takes the form of sessions lasting one to three weeks. On average, twelve sessions and a seminar are programmed annually.

  • Tunisian journalism school has 40-year heritage

    Date: 12/16/98

    The Tunisian institution that is known today as the Institute of the Press and Information Sciences traces its roots to an experiment undertaken in 1956, the year Tunisia won independence from France.

    In that year, a dozen students, recruited through a contest at the Institut des Hautes tudes in Tunis, enrolled at the newly created Press Institute.

  • What is on WAN's agenda for the fall?

    Date: 12/16/98

    The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has a very busy schedule of events for this fall. Study tours, one-day executive visits and conferences are already on the agenda.

    On September 18, newspaper executives can pay a visit to Berliner Zeitung of Germany for a day-long event called "Innovation for Success: Winning the Battle for Classifieds." In addition, the World Forum on Newspaper Strategy will be September 23-25 at Chantilly, La Chapelle en Serval, France.

  • Warsaw Journalism Center, Harvard's Nieman Foundation to present ethics conference

    Date: 12/16/98

    Experience the zlota polska jesien or "golden Polish autumn" while attending a conference, "Ethics in Journalism," featuring an international panel of experts, to be conducted October 26-27 in the Polish capital by the Warsaw Journalism Center and Harvard University.

  • Jemstone Network offers fall schedule of events

    Date: 12/16/98

    Two four-day workshops on the training of trainers--one in Cairo set for September 4-8, the other in Amman, Jordan, October 23-27; a workshop on advanced Internet for journalists in Beirut, Lebanon, October 4-7; a "masterclass" for some of the best political cartoonists from Europe and the eastern Mediterranean to be held in Malta, October 30-November 2; a round table conference on the theme of culture and communication in the global information society, scheduled in Amman in December--that is the fall program for Jemstone, according its recent newslet

  • $2.9 million grant funds fellowship for international affairs journalists

    Date: 12/16/98

    At a time when some media organizations speak of a decline in public interest in international news, Pew Charitable Trusts took a mighty step to bolster foreign news when it made a $2.9 million grant to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, to develop a fellowship program in international affairs for young journalists.

  • Seminar planned in Kenya for exiled Ethiopian journalists

    Date: 12/16/98

    The Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa (NDIMA), will take part in a seminar for exiled Ethiopian journalists, sponsored by UNESCO.

    The event will take place in September or October in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, said Sam Mbure, program coordinator for NDIMA, a pan-African NGO promoting freedom of expression and human rights.