Deadline: 13 June 2016
Open to: experienced journalists from a community underrepresented by traditional media
Fellowship: salary of USD 40,000, plus vacation, commuting, and health benefits
Description
YES! Magazine is an award-winning, national, nonprofit media organization. The Magazine’s print publication reaches 60,000 people each quarter. This position is open for a journalist for a one-year, full-time, in-house reporting fellowship based in their Bainbridge Island, Washington, office, near Seattle. YES! established this fellowship to support journalists from communities of color and to increase the diversity of voices and perspectives in our social justice reporting and writing.
The fellowship offers the opportunity to work with experienced writers, editors, and designers to create incisive articles about solution-based responses to the news of the day and to pursue in-depth reporting projects. The fellow’s reporting will land in any of the major content areas: economic inequality, racial justice, new economy finance and business, food and health justice, climate change and environmental justice, and social justice in popular culture.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this call you must be:
- Experienced. You’ve worked as a reporter before and have lots of clips, but you want to take your journalism further, to learn and improve;
- You’re an excellent writer with a clear and strong voice;
- You come from a community underrepresented by traditional media and are able to use that experience to help us achieve greater breadth, depth, and accuracy in our coverage;
- You’re interested in research and data that reveal important stories;
- You’re a master at social media and really know how to get your stories to travel in your networks.
Not required but definitely a plus: You know something about other media forms. You can shoot photos and video, design graphics, or you’re a budding Javascript coder.
Fellowship
The fellow will receive a salary of USD 40,000, plus vacation, commuting, and health benefits.
How to apply?
In order to apply please send to jobs@yesmagazine.org the following documents:
- A statement of interest;
- Along with a resume;
- Three published writing clips;
- Two professional references.
Is preferable all materials to be received as a single PDF, please also send it as an attachment with “reporting fellow” in the subject line.
For more information, please visit the official website.
