Religion Newswriters Association Scholarship Application Deadline is Jan. 1

Jour­nal­ists inter­ested in tak­ing col­lege courses in reli­gion or spir­i­tu­al­ity have until Jan. 1 to apply for a schol­ar­ship pro­gram offered by the Reli­gion Newswrit­ers Asso­ci­a­tion. Jour­nal­ists will receive schol­ar­ships for up to $5,000 each to study reli­gion at any accred­ited col­lege, uni­ver­sity or sem­i­nary. Schol­ar­ships cover expenses includ­ing tuition, reg­is­tra­tion fees and books. Scholarships […]

Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Training

Posted as writ­ten by KDMC, Sept. 4, 2012 The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter (KDMC) Fall 2012 Mul­ti­me­dia Sto­ry­telling Series is brought to you by the world’s pre­mier cen­ter for applied dig­i­tal com­mu­ni­ca­tions. All work­shops are led by UC Berke­ley lec­tur­ers and staff, with pre­sen­ta­tions from award-winning fac­ulty and indus­try lead­ers to give you the skills to dis­tin­guish you […]

Knight’s Multimedia Storytelling Workshop

Editor’s note: I strongly rec­om­mend that you apply for this Mul­ti­me­dia Sto­ry­telling Insti­tute work­shop at the Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter, UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism. My expe­ri­ence at a KDMC work­shop for jour­nal­ists inter­ested in mul­ti­me­dia sto­ry­telling was amaz­ing. I know Voice Coach Mar­i­lyn Pittman and the oth­ers lead­ing the work­shop. They’re super­stars. You won’t […]

Poynter’s Digital Entrepreneurship Workshop: Building Your Online Business

Editor’s note: The Poyn­ter Insti­tute in St. Peters­burg, Fla., is tak­ing appli­ca­tions for its August work­shop in entre­pre­neur­ial jour­nal­ism. I attended this work­shop last July. I learned a great deal about start­ing my own busi­ness and how to make the most of my skills and ideas in the dig­i­tal news and infor­ma­tion mar­ket­place. I reworked […]

Elizabeth Neuffer fellowship: human rights

The Inter­na­tional Women’s Media Foun­da­tion is accept­ing appli­ca­tions for the 2011-12 Eliz­a­beth Neuf­fer Fel­low­ship, which is named for the 1998 IWMF Courage in Jour­nal­ism Award win­ner and Boston Globe cor­re­spon­dent who was killed in Iraq in 2003. The pro­gram aims to advance Neuffer’s life mis­sion of pro­mot­ing inter­na­tional under­stand­ing of human rights and social justice […]

How to break into ghostwriting workshop tonight

Call­ing all aspir­ing ghosts.: Ellen Neuborne of Gotham Ghost­writ­ers, says, “We hope you can join us for the free work­shop we are co-hosting Tues­day night with the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Jour­nal­ists and Authors (ASJA) on how to get into the ghost­writ­ing game.” Par­tic­i­pants in Man­hat­tan will be meet­ing at the NYU Jour­nal­ism Insti­tute, 20 Cooper Square […]

Reminder: Maynard multimedia fellow deadline

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists: Apply by April 15 at 11:59 PDT to receive a mul­ti­me­dia edit­ing fel­low­ship from the May­nard Insti­tute at the Reynolds School of Jour­nal­ism, Uni­ver­sity of Nevado-Reno.

USC Annenberg 2011 health reporting grants

Call for Appli­ca­tions! All-Expenses-Paid Mini Fel­low­ship at USC Annen­berg with $2,000-$10,000 Report­ing Grant When: July 24–29, 2011 Where: Los Ange­les Dead­line to Apply: May 2, 2011 In this era of tight news­room bud­gets and declin­ing free­lance fees, it’s often hard to find the resources to under­take an ambi­tious report­ing project. The Cal­i­for­nia Endow­ment Health Jour­nal­ism Fel­low­ships offer […]

Maynard Institute offers multimedia fellowships

Editor’s note: We have plenty of mem­bers of the Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists com­mu­nity who work at news oper­a­tions (online or print) and  fear they won’t keep their jobs unless they  boost their dig­i­tal and mul­ti­me­dia skills. This May­nard Insti­tute month-long fel­low­ship is  a great oppor­tu­nity to get that train­ing. — Susan Older Mul­ti­me­dia Edit­ing Fel­low­ships Available […]

KDMC workshop: Web publishing for independent journalists

The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter UC-Berkeley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism The career path for many of today’s jour­nal­ists is merg­ing with entre­pre­neur­ship. Jour­nal­ists who once cov­ered top­i­cal, fea­ture and inves­tiga­tive news for estab­lished news­pa­pers are becom­ing inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ers of spe­cialty blogs and hyper­local com­mu­nity news sites. These sites ful­fill an impor­tant role in the emerging […]

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