Local Investigations Fellowship 2024

The Local Investigations Fellowship gives journalists the opportunity to produce signature investigative work focused on the state or region they’re reporting from that will be published by The Times and made available for free for co-publication by local newsrooms.

The Local Investigations Fellowship is a one-year investigative reporting fellowship to develop the next generation of great reporters to do this essential type of accountability journalism at the local level. They are looking for fellows who have a few years of professional experience covering a local beat and who are ready to tackle an ambitious investigative project but lack the time, resources and guidance to produce it.

Benefits

For local news outlets, this fellowship is a prestigious development opportunity for promising, early-career journalists to spend a year learning from veteran investigative editors, and then return to your newsroom with a new set of skills that will benefit your report. The New York Times will employ the fellows for the year. Your newsroom will have the option to co-publish the work at no cost.

Eligibility

The ideal candidate for the Local Investigations Fellowship:

• Is either an independent journalist or a journalist employed at a newsroom willing to provide a yearlong sabbatical.
• Has a minimum of three years of professional experience as a reporter covering a beat for a local newspaper or local digital news outlet.
• Has an ambitious local investigative story idea that needs time and resources to execute.
• Is a journalist who believes they would bring new perspectives to investigative journalism.

How to apply

The application deadline for this fellowship is September 3, 2024. To learn more and apply, please click here.