Other Award & Fellowship Opportunities

The Journalism Program comes across many awards and fellowship opportunities for working professionals and organizations. On this page, we will periodically share a list of prospects. We hope that you will submit your best work for consideration to our partners and friends.

If you have an opportunity you'd like to share, please send us an e-mail with more information.

 July 2010

• Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships, a unique seminar program for mid-career journalists who want to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and improve coverage of violence, conflict and tragedy. Applications are due by July 21, 2010. Click here for more information.

Year Long

• Chicago Headline Club is accepting nominations for their Watchdog Award, which honors Chicago area news reporting that calls attention to situations in which the public is being harmed or poorly served. Sponsored by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the CHC each year awards a cash prize for enterprising journalism that defends and protects everyday folks.The prize for work completed in 2009 will be $1,500 and will be presented on April 23, 2010 at the Chicago Headline Club's Lisagor Awards banquet. Do you have something to enter? Click here.