Deadline: 15 February, 2024

World Press Institute (WPI) has opened applications for the WPI Fellowship Programme 2024.

The programme is designed to strengthen and promote the founding principles and best practices of journalism that lead to transparency and accountability in the government and private sectors.

Benefits

• Roundtrip airfare to the United States
• Travel within the United States related to the WPI programme
• Lodging
• Fellows will receive a modest daily allowance to purchase food

Eligibility

• At least five years of full-time employment in print, broadcast or online journalism, including news or editorial departments of newspapers, wire services, radio, television, websites or online publications; photojournalists, editorial cartoonists, columnists and broadcast producers; those who supervise journalists are eligible if they also have at least five years as a working journalist
• Any journalism-related work completed as a university student does not count toward experience
• Those who work in public relations or at organisations whose primary business is not the media are not eligible
• Must be currently employed as a non-U.S. journalist working outside of the United States
• Fluency in both written and spoken English
• Potential for leadership

To apply and for more information, click here.