Deadline: 30 March, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 Dag Hammarskjöld Journalism Fellowship.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists accepts applications from career print, television, radio or internet journalists from the mainly developing nations of Africa to cover deliberations of the United Nations General Assembly for approximately 10-12 weeks beginning in September each year.
Benefits
- The Fund will arrange and pay for all travel expenses for the Fellowship Recipients. Travel arrangements cannot be made until you have obtained a valid journalist I-1 Visa.
- The Fund will provide Fellowship recipients with furnished studio apartments near the United Nations.
- The Fund assumes that you will continue to be paid as an employee of your media organization. However, to allow for increased personal expenses, a modest daily stipend will be paid to each journalist.
Eligibility
- Career journalists, age 25-35, from mainly developing nations of Africa, Asia (including Pacific Island countries) and Latin America/the Caribbean are eligible to apply. Freelance journalists are also eligible
- Applicant journalists must have a current passport, which will be required to apply for and obtain a I-1 journalist visa from a U.S. Embassy or Consulate in order to accept the Fellowship
- Work samples no earlier than 2022 must be provided.
- Applicants must be employed by bona fide media organizations as print, television, radio or web journalists
- Speaking English with proficiency is required since it is one of the primary languages used at the United Nations
- Journalists younger than 25 and older than 35 are not eligible to apply since the program is intended for mid-career journalists
- Students of journalism are not eligible to apply
- Journalists from European countries are not eligible to apply unless they are still reporting to audiences in their home country
To apply and for more information, click here.
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