News 21 Summer Fellowship
News21 ( http://newsinitiative.org/ ), a national investigative reporting project, is seeking advanced journalism students (juniors, seniors and graduate) for its paid summer fellowships. As part of the project, sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight Foundations, students will travel the country to produce in-depth news coverage on critical issues facing the nation and then experiment with innovative digital methods to distribute the news on multiple platforms.
News21 will offer three fellowships to University of Nebraska-Lincoln students interested in reporting, photography, broadcasting, media design and computer programming. Those chosen will enroll in an independent study course this spring to prepare for the reporting project. During the summer, they will spend 10 weeks at one of eight participating universities, where they will report their stories and produce material for publication or broadcast across a number of platforms. The participating universities are the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of Southern California, Arizona State University, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Syracuse University.
Past participants in News21 have produced experimental reporting on seldom-covered but important stories, and their work has been published or broadcast by news organizations including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, L.A. Weekly, Forbes.com, The Associated Press, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CNN. This summer, student-produced reports will be published on NPR.org, as well as at newsinitiative.org.
The pay is $750 a week; travel costs also will be covered.
To apply, please send the following information via e-mail to Michelle Hassler, assistant to the dean, mhassler3@unl.edu, by Thursday, Oct. 23:
Reporting experience
Internships held
GPA
Scheduled graduation date
Questions? E-mail or call Michelle at 472-7050. Watch soon on Facebook for a "News21-UNL" group
