Applications Invited for Early-Career Fellowship Program

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About the Organization

The Open Notebook is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is widely regarded as the leading online source of training and educational materials for journalists who cover science. Our ultimate goal is to enable communities to navigate the complexities of how science affects our everyday lives. Toward that end, our work focuses on strengthening journalistic coverage of science, environment, health, and technology. Our publications, courses, workshops, and mentoring programs empower journalists in the U.S. and globally to tell stories that matter, contributing to an informed and engaged society.

About the Fellowship

The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. During the course of this fellowship, fellows work with a mentor to plan, report, and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook and become part of the TON editorial team. This one-year program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to sharpen their skills as part of a talented, supportive, diverse community of past and present fellows and mentors. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, which has supported this program since 2012.

During this fellowship, each fellow will pitch, report, and write four articles for publication at The Open Notebook—a mix of “story behind the story” interviews and reported features. They will have weekly phone or video meetings with a mentor who is an experienced science journalist and who will help them shape story ideas, provide reporting and writing guidance, edit fellows’ article drafts, and offer general craft and career-development advice and guidance.
Typically, fellows’ articles go through several rounds of substantive editing. As each article nears completion, fellows are also responsible for annotating their articles for fact-checking and for collecting demographic data about their sources as part of our ongoing source-diversity tracking effort.

Fellows and mentors also take part in a Slack discussion group composed of other current and former fellowship participants and TON editors. During the fellowship, fellows will be responsible for participating in cohort-based activities in the fellowship Slack community. Membership in this community will continue after the fellowship ends.

Eligibility

The fellowship is open to early-career science journalists.

• If you live outside the U.S., you are welcome to apply.

Some training and/or experience in writing for the general public is a requirement for this fellowship.

• You do not need to have extensive experience or training, but you do need to have some.

Science journalists (or aspiring science journalists) must have fewer than three years of regular professional science writing experience.

• Internships and student work do not count toward the fewer-than-three-years requirement.
• Exceptions to this requirement may also be made for cases in which an applicant has more than three years of professional science writing experience but some or all of that experience is not in English.

Applications, including writing samples and letters of recommendation, must be in English.

• Materials translated into English from another language are acceptable.

How to Apply

Applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Central time on October 31, 2024. (Note: The deadline for reference letters is November 6, 2024. We recommend that you notify letter-writers well in advance of the deadline so that they have time to write you a well-considered letter.)

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