RJI Fellowships

The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute invites proposals from individuals and organisations who wish to partner with them on practical innovative projects for community centered news, journalists and the communities they serve through their RJI fellowships.

All fellowship projects are built, tested and launched to the public within the span of the fellowship and must be free, accessible and open-source for journalists, newsrooms and the public to utilise.

Fellowship Types

They have two types of RJI Fellowships:

• Residential Fellowship: Their residential fellowship is for an individual who wants to spend a year at RJI to create a resource to help with a current need, gap or challenge for journalists and/or newsrooms. The resource can be a platform, a tool, a workshop series; it can be digital or physical. It just needs to be free, accessible and utilisable by newsrooms across the country.
• Remote: Nonresidential or Institutional
  – Nonresidential fellowships: Nonresidential fellowships are a remote fellowship where the funding goes directly to an individual to let them pursue an idea outside of their day job/work. You will visit to RJI to kick off your fellowship meet your Fellow cohort, RJI leadership, faculty, students and access on-site resources. Your project will be implemented and tested in the newsroom(s) of your choice during your fellowship, before your final product is launched for journalists to utilise.
  – Institutional fellowships: Institutional fellowships are a remote fellowship where the funding for the fellowship goes to the company or institution, rather than an individual. RJI will collaborate with the individual assigned to lead the team/project, that individual will be named an RJI Institutional Fellow.

Deadlines

• Residential Fellowship: Feb 4, 2025
• Remote: Nonresidential Fellowship: Feb 7, 2025
• Institutional Fellowship: Feb 4, 2025

How to apply

To learn more and apply, please click here.