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Project Criteria
The Knight International Journalism Fellowships program sends top media experts to targeted countries around the world to lead projects that have a lasting and tangible impact on journalists, media organizations and societies as a whole.
The International Center for Journalists welcomes Knight Fellowship project ideas. While training journalists and media managers is part of what Knight Fellows do, it is not their only task. Project proposals must include plans for long-term, tangible changes beyond providing journalists with new information and skills.
Examples:
- The project will create an association of investigative journalists and a web site with tools and databases to help them generate more and better news in the public interest.
- The project will help rural community radio stations share stories on key issues such as health, environment and small businesses via a digital platform that builds capacity and expands coverage.
- The project will develop audience research techniques to help the country’s media organizations tailor content to citizens’ interests, sell more advertising and thereby increase financial sustainability.
Project proposals should answer the following questions:
- What are the short-term goals of the project? What do you expect to change while the project is under way on the level of individual journalists, the media, or society?
- What are the long-term goals of the project? What will be different in the country’s media or in society as a whole because the project took place?
- Is the project taking advantage of a new opportunity such as an election or a change in law in the target country, and if so what is that opportunity? How will the country’s legal, political and economic environment encourage or impede better journalism that can improve the way people live?
- How will the project take advantage of new technologies or new models designed to help citizens share information?
- What is the Knight Fellow’s role in the project? How much of a leadership role will the Knight Fellow take?
- What skills will the Knight Fellow need to lead the project? What languages must he or she speak?
- What other resources are needed to make the project happen? Who will provide those resources? What will you or your organization provide?
- How do you propose to measure whether the project has been successful?
Click here for our online Project Proposal form
Fellowship Qualifications
Knight International Fellows work with partner organizations on media-development projects designed to produce lasting, tangible change in the public interest. Fellows build skills and enhance the standards of independent media in these key regions: Asia/Pacific, Eurasia/Former Soviet Union, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Candidates must be fluent in the language of the region where they are deployed and should have at least 10 years' experience in journalism or related fields such as media-business management. Fellowships are open to any nationality for assignments of at least a year.
Candidates may apply for a Fellowship by:
- Responding to a specific, advertised opening. Click here for a list of targeted projects for which we are seeking qualified applicants.
- Submitting a general application that would be evaluated on a rolling basis, dependent on Fellowship needs at that time.
The program may create Fellowships designed to take advantage of the skills of qualified applicants or to respond to specific local needs identified by the Fellowship candidate or local partner. Candidates are encouraged to list geographic preferences on their applications.
Finalists may be invited to ICFJ offices in Washington, DC, for interviews. If that is not feasible, they can be interviewed by ICFJ’s regional representatives or by phone. Decisions will be made shortly after the interviews take place.
Fellows are asked to attend a week-long orientation in Washington. During the Fellowship, each Fellow receives an allowance for transportation, professional and living expenses and an honorarium. Fellows also have access to a Grants Fund. Approved grants cover the costs of special projects that benefit the program.
Click here for our online Fellowship application form
Partnership Opportunities
Knight International’s partners represent leaders and organizations in journalism and independent media development dedicated to raising professional standards. Knight International works with potential partners, media leaders and journalists in the field to identify key projects that benefit from the Fellowships.
Knight International and ICFJ accept applications from partners and nominations for innovative, high-impact ideas to transform media around the world. If you or your organization are interested in opportunities to become a partner.
Click here for our online Partner application form
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