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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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  • Company to sponsor journalist fellows at Cambridge

    Date: 12/12/98

    Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), an international provider of business services, has announced that it will sponsor two fellowships a year on the Press Fellowship Programme offered by Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge, and journalists from Central and Eastern Europe are eligible to apply, according to a report in the newsletter Green Horizon.

  • Institute for War & Peace Reporting launches Yugoslav media monitoring bulletin

    Date: 12/12/98

    Media Focus is a free bi-weekly e-mail bulletin devoted to analyzing the media in Yugoslavia. Media Focus is a project of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) in London., and is produced in collaboration with a Yugoslav research agency, Argument, and the Media Center, both of Belgrade. Media Focus intends to present a critical mirror of the performance of the Yugoslav media.

    Yugoslav journalism is again in crisis.

  • Bulgarian parliament bans TV ads from prime time

    Date: 12/12/98

    The Bulgarian parliament on November 13 banned broadcasts of television advertisements during peak evening viewing hours, overruling a veto imposed by President Petar Stoyanov on a controversial media law, the European Journalism Centre (EJC) reported.

    The ban will be effective between 7 and 10 p.m. The article was the only one overruled by parliament among several that Stoyanov had vetoed.

  • Online database lists hundreds of local environmental contacts in CEE

    Date: 12/12/98

    A new database accessible via the Internet lists more than 500 people responsible for environmental concerns in town and city governments all around the ten ?accession nations? of Central and Eastern Europe, according to the November 2 issue of Green Horizon, the newsletter of the Media Information Service (MIS) of the Regional Environmental Center (REC) for Central and Eastern Europe in Szentendre, Hungary.

  • English language monthly in Prague seeks environmental stories

    Date: 12/12/98

    "Transitions" magazine invites writers to submit stories on environmental issues, according to Green Horizon, the newsletter of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. Contributions from in-country authors are especially welcomed, and need not be in English. Stories can range from short, news-related items of 500 to 700 words or longer features of 1,500 to 2,500 words. Contact executive editor Kees Schaepman by e-mail at shaepmank@ijt.cz.

  • Commonwealth Short Story Competition opens for 1999

    Date: 12/12/98

    Masters-or novice writers-who appreciate brevity should sharpen their writing and editing tools to craft an entry for the 1999 Short Story Competition offered by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). All Commonwealth citizens--amateur writers or professional--can participate in the competition. The association's goal is to promote the Commonwealth by broadcasting well-written short stories by Commonwealth writers.

    Original, English-language stories of about 500 words qualify for the contest.

  • IFJ seeks international assistance for Serbian independent media

    Date: 12/12/98

    In recent weeks newspapers and radio stations have been closed by the authorities in Serbia, putting more than 400 journalists out of work. Harassment has reached its severest level since the government introduced a new information law October 20, making it easier to prosecute media that displease authorities.

  • Internet publication seeks contributors

    Date: 12/12/98

    Orato, a network of contributors, is looking for writers, photographers and videographers from around the world to join its network. Orato will pay for first-person stories from professional or amateur writers. Orato considers itself to be part magazine, part talk show, part town meeting and an alternative to the big media and says it has more than 2,000 correspondents around the world.

  • Mott Foundation funds environmental journalism program in Hungary, Poland

    Date: 12/12/98

    Among the unfortunate legacies of the communist era is severe environmental damage in the countries that were affiliated with the Soviet camp.

    To better equip journalists to inform the public about environmental issues, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is financing four workshops to be held in Hungary and Poland during November.

  • Baltic Media Centre rounds out schedule of training for 1998

    Date: 12/12/98

    The Baltic Media Centre closes out the year 1998 with courses for broadcast journalists from the region in investigative journalism, production of radio programs for young people, basic skills for young journalists and television management for producers.

    Broadcast journalists will cultivate their skills in investigative journalism in a weeklong course, November 15-21.