SoJ Web Report | Dec. 8, 2010
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The fellowship, sponsored by the Knight Chair in Media and Religion and funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, offers stipends for American journalists to report and write stories that illuminate how religion crosses geographic, temporal and ideological borders as well as how it establishes real and virtual boundaries.
The organizers welcome staff reporters, affiliated freelancers and self-employed Web journalists, working in the U.S. or abroad, who cover politics, social and cultural issues as well as generalists and religion specialists to apply. Successful applicants will be awarded stipends from $5,000 to $25,000 to subsidize travel, living and miscellaneous costs.
Fellows will have up to six months within which to complete their projects. During that time period, fellows will travel outside the U.S. to report stories that explore how religion, religious institutions, and religious people engage in on-the-ground social, political and economic conditions. These stories will be developed for delivery on multiple platforms – print, radio, TV, online.
Finally, at the completion of their projects, several fellows will be invited to spend three days in residence at University of Southern California Annenberg to present their work, hold master classes for journalism students, and give public lectures for the USC community.
For more information about the Knight Luce Fellowship and to apply, visit the website.
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