Funder: Pulitzer Center
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Special Call application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Consult your campus for award amounts; the 2025 Mental Well-Being Special Call offered a $4,000 stipend
Summary: Reporting Fellowships support students and recent graduates at Campus Consortium partner institutions pursuing independent journalism on underreported issues.
Key Information: Each Campus Consortium partner has its own application process and may impose additional requirements.
Description
The Pulitzer Center’s Reporting Fellowships support independent journalism by students and recent graduates at its Campus Consortium partner institutions. Fellows report on critical issues in the United States and around the world, emphasizing stories underreported in mainstream American media. The Center values work across five focus areas: climate and the environment, global health, peace and conflict, human rights including gender and racial equity, and information and artificial intelligence.
Fellows receive mentorship, journalism resources, and networking opportunities while developing writing, multimedia, analytical, and creative skills. Their articles, photo essays, video, audio, and data visualizations appear on the Pulitzer Center website and in news outlets. A separate Mental Well-Being Special Call supports U.S. reporting on interventions before crisis, resilience, and protective factors.
