The aim of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is to support in-depth, ambitious coverage of critical issues related to the global economy and business.
In an age when many news organizations no longer have the resources to tackle complex, time-consuming stories, the Fellowships enable experienced journalists to do the deep reporting needed to produce a serious piece of investigative, analytic, or narrative journalism.
The McGraw Fellowship provides editorial and financial support to journalists who need the time and resources to produce a significant story that provides fresh insight into an important business or economic topic. Currently, we are accepting applications for long-form print or radio pieces. We will expand to include multimedia, data and video projects in the future. (And we would encourage current applicants to include supplemental visual or multimedia elements to run with their core written or audio stories.)
Typically, we’ll award grants of $5,000 a month for one to three months; in exceptional cases, we’ll consider longer grants based upon specific proposals. We’ll look for applicants with a proven ability to report and execute a complex project in their proposed medium; ideally, candidates will also have a strong background or reporting expertise on the subject of their piece.
The McGraw Center will provide editorial supervision during the Fellowship. We will work with the Fellows to develop their projects during the reporting phase and will edit the completed stories. We will also assist with placing the articles. In some cases, we will partner with established print, radio or digital outlets; in others we will publish them as e-books or through the CUNY J-School’s book imprint. The stories will also run on the McGraw Center website.
Eligibility
The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is open to anyone with at least five years professional experience in journalism. Freelance journalists, as well as reporters and editors currently working at a news organization, may apply.
Applications will generally be accepted twice a year – in the spring and again in the fall. The spring deadline for applications was May 15, 2014; the fall deadline is December 15, 2014. However, we will consider time-sensitive projects on a case-by-case basis outside of the deadline periods.
For further details and application please visit the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism page.
