Partially Funded Fellowship Opportunity to Report on Conflict and Violence in the USA

Dart Center offers a partially funded fellowship opportunity for Reporting on Conflict, Violence Open in the USA. The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship is a unique seminar program for senior and mid-career journalists who wish to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury and improve reporting on violence, conflict, and tragedy. Reporting responsibly and credibly on traumatic events like street crime and family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide, pandemic and social upheaval is a major challenge. Since 1999 the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has brought together outstanding journalists from around the world to explore critical issues around news coverage of violence, trauma, and tragedy. Fellows attend an intensive weeklong program of seminars held at Columbia University in New York City. Program activities include briefings by prominent interdisciplinary experts in the trauma and mental health fields; conversations with journalist colleagues on issues of ethics, craft, and practice, and a variety of other opportunities for intellectual engagement and peer learning.

• The Ochberg Fellowship covers roundtrip travel, 7 nights of lodging, meals and expenses directly related to participation such as ground transportation and travel insurance.
• The program does not cover health insurance, additional nights of lodging beyond the Fellowship’s duration or ground transportation in fellows’ home cities.
• The Fellowship program will be held July 21-27, 2023 at Columbia University in New York City. In the event that public health conditions require the organization to cancel the program, all selected fellows for 2023 will be deferred to 2024.

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• The Ochberg Fellowships are open to outstanding journalists from any part of the world (with at least five years of professional journalism experience) working across all media. 
• Both staff journalists and freelancers are welcome to apply.
• Applicants’ work must demonstrate journalistic excellence and a strong track record of covering trauma and its impact on individuals, families, or communities.
• The Fellowship is open to print, broadcast, and digital reporters, photographers, editors, and producers with at least five years of professional journalism experience. Approximately half of the Fellows will be based in North America, with the balance drawn from Latin America, Europe, the Asia Pacific region, Africa, and the Middle East.
• All fellowship seminars are conducted in English. Fellows must be fluent in spoken English to participate in the program.
• Applications are reviewed by a judging committee comprised of Dart Center staff, Fellowship faculty, and past Fellows. Selection is not based on any single factor. Judges consider a variety of factors, with an emphasis on whether applicants:
• Demonstrate consistent and thoughtful journalistic engagement with issues of violence, conflict, tragedy, and their aftermath.
• Have demonstrated journalistic excellence and leadership in their journalism careers.
• Will likely benefit personally and professionally from the Fellowship experience and contribute meaningfully to the program and fellows cohort.
• Other considerations may include geographic and other diversity and overall group composition.

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The Dart Center is a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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