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Fellowship Openings
  • Malawi, Knight Development Journalism Fellowships
    Project focus: Development issues including agriculture, employment, microfinance and sanitation
    Criteria: In-depth print and digital media experience
    Countries/language requirement: English

  • Malaysia
    Project focus: Integrate a citizen journalist network into a digital newsroom to create new Web content and features based on citizen reports and information.
    Criteria: Experience in digital media reporting and editing, experience with digital media technology, experience in newsroom convergence, knowledge of or experience with citizen journalism and blogging, media-management experience.
    Language requirement: Fluent in English, fluent in Chinese (recommended, not required)

  • Panama
    Project focus: Create an online system to track crime and corruption based on emails, text messages, photos and videos provided by citizens. The goal: produce investigative reports that identify patterns of crime and corruption and prompt government action to address these problems.
    Criteria: Strong background in investigative journalism and database journalism, strong background in digital media, and demonstrated understanding of journalism ethics
    Language requirement: Fluent in Spanish

  • Zambia, Knight Health Journalism Fellowship
    Project focus: Train journalists to produce penetrating coverage of health issues including HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and hygiene. Help build networks of health journalists that connect with each other to develop sources and resources and serve as mentors for their colleagues. Help partner organization(s) improve business-management practices to make health coverage sustainable.
    Criteria: In-depth health, print and digital media experience
    Language requirement: English
The Knight International Journalism Fellowships program makes tangible changes that improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the year-long program sends international media professionals to countries where there are opportunities to promote reliable, insightful journalism that holds officials accountable.

Knight International Fellows work in these key regions: Asia/Pacific, Eurasia/Former Soviet Union, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan African.

Qualifications and Skills:

- Strong leadership qualities
- Fluency in the local language of the host country
- Demonstrated knowledge of project focus and experience in project medium/media
- Minimum of 10 years journalism experience
- Training experience is a plus
- Fellowship is open to any nationality
- Fellowship duration is a minimum of one year

An orientation program for new Knight International Journalism Fellows providing information about the Fellowships and training in digital media, mentoring techniques and monitoring and evaluation methods takes place twice annually.