Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship

Applications are now open for Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program to build on Mongabay’s long-running internship program, which has helped bolster the capacity of environmental journalists in a field where such experience can be hard to acquire.

The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Program will support up to 12 fellows per year — six at our global English bureau and six at our Spanish-language bureau, Mongabay-Latam.

Fellows will gain valuable experience working with a range of editors at our international news outlet, develop their environmental reporting skills, and create a portfolio of original publications that should help them advance their careers in journalism.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be from a low- to upper-middle income tropical country, as classified by the World Bank. “High-income” tropical countries, such as Singapore and Australia, are excluded from the fellowship.
• Applicants must be aspiring, early-career environmental journalists.
• Applicants must be able to work remotely and commit to 10 hours per week.
• There is no education requirement to apply for the program. The fellowship is not linked to any university.
• All application materials must be submitted in the appropriate language (English for the English-language program and Spanish for the Spanish-language program).
• They are currently only accepting fellows for their global English- and Spanish-language bureaus. Their ambition is to eventually expand this program into other Mongabay bureaus, including Indonesia, India, Brazil and French-speaking tropical countries, but they don’t currently have a timeline for this expansion.

Judging criteria

• Basic understanding of and interest in reporting and writing news stories;
• Demonstrated interest in conservation issues;
• Demonstrated interest in environmental journalism as a career;
• Proven communication skills;
• Capacity to fulfill all of the fellowship requirements and reporting plans.

How to apply

The deadline for applications is January 19, 2025. To learn more and apply, please click here.