LaunchPad Fellowship 2024 for NextGen Journalists

The LaunchPad Fellowship program 2024 (nine-month) is designed for early-career journalists from all media plat forms who have the skills, expertise and desire to tackle an ambitious in-depth reporting/storytelling project on a critical social justice issue facing the U.S. Fellows will work independently to conduct research, interviews and other reporting/producing activities needed to complete their proposed project. They will be challenged to delve deeply into their selected issue; to explore its real and human impact on the nation’s historically marginalized communities; to expose the systemic drivers that contribute to the problem; and to explore possible remedies and solutions.

Benefits of LaunchPad Fellowship 2024

LaunchPad Fellows will receive:

• A $5,000 grant to offset living expenses while conducting their research and reporting.
• An intensive, three-day in-person learning/training experience.
• Skills-building webinars throughout the fellowship year.
• Nine months of professional/project mentorship and coaching.

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Eligibility for LaunchPad Fellowship 2024

They are looking for talented early-career journalists from diverse backgrounds who have a demonstrated commitment to journalism and community storytelling through the lens of racial equity and social justice. Those employed by a news organization, as well as freelance/independent journalists, are encouraged to apply.

Specifically, the ideal applicant will:

• Have at least three and no more than six years of professional journalism experience, either sequentially or cumulatively, in any medium (e.g. digital, print, video, audio, photo, multimedia).
• Demonstrate an interest in and commitment to covering social justice and equity issues and to reporting in underserved local communities.
• Have a publication plan. (You are required to provide a letter of support from your employer or, if a freelancer, a “letter of interest to publish” from a news outlet, before being accepted into the program.)
• Be committed to and practice ethical and principled journalism, which is accurate, fair and thorough.
• Demonstrate a serious intention to pursue a career in journalism
• Apply as an individual–not as a team or on behalf of a news organization.
• Reside in the United States.

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Application

You would need the following to apply:

• A brief description of your proposed project.
• A letter of interest and/or a commitment to publish from an editor of a news outlet (e.g. your current employer or, if you’re an independent journalist, from a news outlet).
• A reporting/production plan and, if you have it, a budget.
• Three samples of published work (any medium).
• Two professional references.
• Your rêsumé.

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