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  • DEADLINE: USC Annenberg California Health Equity Journalism Fellowship

    "Our California Fellowship is designed to support reporters in the Golden State pursuing ambitious, enterprising projects on overlooked health and health equity issues. You decide what stories need to be told in your community to improve health outcomes and we work to support you." Open to California-based professional journalists (including freelancers and national correspondents with

  • DEADLINE: Logan Science Journalism Program

    "The Logan Science Journalism Program, founded in 1986, offers science journalists, writers, editors, and broadcast journalists a chance to forget about story deadlines and immerse themselves in basic biomedical or environmental research." Journalists can apply for an introductory course in biomedical research or one in environmental research, both of which are hosted in-person at the

  • DEADLINE: Canadian Hillman Prize

    The Sidney Hillman Foundation awards the Canadian Hillman Prizes to "honour excellence in journalism in service of the common good. The Hillman Prizes seek out investigative reporting that draws attention to social or economic injustice and leads to meaningful public policy change. We strive to recognize discernment of a significant news story, resourcefulness and courage

  • DEADLINE: Covering Climate Now Training Initiative — The Climate Newsroom

    "Covering Climate Now is expanding its newsroom training initiatives to enhance climate coverage through local media across the US. The project, called The Climate Newsroom, builds on the success of The Climate Station local TV training program and our work with more than 500 media partners worldwide to offer free, customized training designed to help

  • DEADLINE: World Press Photo Contest

    "The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. Entering is free and prizes include up to €10,000, inclusion in our annual traveling exhibition, and more. Entries for the 2026 World Press Photo Contest will open on 1 December 2025 and close on 17 January

  • ComSciCon-Triangle 2026

    "ComSciCon-Triangle 2026 will take place on Saturdays January 17 and January 24, 2026 at the BioLabs NC in Durham, N.C., featuring speakers, panelists and multimedia experts. Attendees can expect a mix of keynote lectures, panels on current scicomm topics, and breakout activities centered on the intersections of art and science. All attendees will participate in

  • DEADLINE: MegaCities-ShortDocs Film Festival

    "Do you live in an urban environment? Can you shoot a 4-minute documentary? Do you want to inspire people around the world to make the change happening? "Show a challenge in your city and solutions or ideas of new initiatives that could tackle such issues. For inspiration and subject ideas, take a look at the

  • DEADLINE: NPPA Best of Photojournalism

    "Photojournalists bear witness to history on a daily basis. They stand on the sidewalks and sit in the living rooms of neighborhoods internationally with a shared mission to inform the public. Through well-researched stories and the documentation of life events, audiences rely on these journalists to ethically inform them of what is happening in their

  • DEADLINE: RJI Pictures of the Year International Competition

    "Pictures of the Year International began as a photographic contest in 1944 by Cliff Edom at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri. ... POY is an educational program. Connecting students and the public with the curated work in POY shows the value of photojournalism and allows people to interpret the news and historic

  • JournalismFund.eu Introductory Webinar: Expert-Reviewed Journalism for Cross-Border Grants

    "Journalismfund Europe announces the re-launch of the European Cross-Border Grants with a new expert approach. The project will encourage journalists to take a more scientific and methodical approach to their investigations, ultimately improving their ability to inform the public more effectively. It will also provide management training to twenty selected small and medium-sized media companies.

  • DEADLINE: NFPW Professional Communications Contest

    "The NFPW National Communications Contest is open to writers regardless of gender, professional status, or location." Categories include writing, editing, photography, web and social media, and more. Entrants apply at the state level to affiliate organizations in their state; first-place winners from the state-level contest then move to the national level. Work must be published

  • DEADLINE: Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

    "The $20,000 Worth Bingham Prize honors investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served. "These stories may involve state, local or national government, lobbyists or the press itself, wherever an “atmosphere of easy tolerance” exists, as journalist Worth Bingham himself once described public misconduct in his reporting on the

  • AHCJ Webinar: Building Audience With Local Climate-Health Stories

    "Climate change is often covered as a vast, global crisis, defined by melting ice sheets, stalled international agreements and the persistent grip of fossil fuels. What gets far less attention are the local stories unfolding across the country: clinics adapting to wildfire, counties redesigning emergency response plans for extreme heat, public health responses to vector-borne

  • DEADLINE: CJF Awards

    "The Canadian Journalism Foundation supports and rewards excellence in Canadian journalism through its annual awards program and by supporting recognition programs run by other organizations. The recipients are presented their awards at the annual CJF Awards, held in June." Cash prizes in multiple categories including Climate Solutions Reporting, Climate Photojournalism and, new in 2026, the

  • DEADLINE: CJF Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship

    "Now in its second year, the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship in partnership with the Canadian Medical Association fellowship is a groundbreaking initiative, aimed at fostering expert reporting on critical health issues affecting Indigenous communities in Canada. Open to Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) journalists working with a publishing partner to support

  • DEADLINE: Pulitzer Prize Books and Journalism Competitions

    The Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917, are awarded annually in journalism, books, music and drama. Books The recommended entry deadline for books published in the first half of 2025 was extended to Aug 8, 2025 (from July 31). The final deadline for all eligible books published in 2025, including those slated for publication in the

  • A Conversation on ‘The Cure for Everything’: Where American Public Health Is and Where It’s Headed

    For the first time in a century, American life expectancy is declining, an unprecedented trend for a wealthy nation and one driven largely by preventable causes of early death. The foundations of public health reforms — sanitation, clean water, safe housing, pollution control, workplace safety, and more — doubled America’s life expectancy between the mid-1800s and