IJNR’s Community Reporting Project Fellowships

Applications are being accepted from early-career journalists for the first cohort of these new fellowships, a joint endeavor of IJNR, The Uproot Project and partners. Deadline: April 26, 2026. Fellows must be members of Uproot (free to join) and will:

• Attend a three-day, expenses-paid, science and environment reporting workshop, produced by IJNR, the Uproot Project and partners (May 27-30, beginning and ending in Detroit).
• Be eligible to apply for grants designed to cover travel and costs associated with reporting in under-reported communities.
• Be eligible to apply for paid, eight-week fellowships at Michigan Public and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, to take place in Fall 2026.
• Engage with other professional journalists as part of a community-building speaker series organized by Dr. Danielle Brown, the 1855 Community and Urban Journalism Professor at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism.
• Participate in other virtual workshops and trainings to be developed in response to the 2026 cohort’s needs and interests
• Be connected to mentoring, editing, help with pitches and other support from both IJNR and the Uproot Project.

Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (IJNR)