2025 Reporting Fellowship

About Global Press

Global Press trains and employs local women reporters to cover the world’s most pressing topics from places where the issues are acute, underreported and connected to wider global trends. Since 2006, Global Press has reimagined international journalism. Our reporters, supported by a skilled global team of editors and accuracy professionals, produce multi-lingual print and audio and photo journalism. Our audience development strategy ensures we reach the local and international stakeholders who need our stories the most.

About The Fellowship

Global Press offers two-year topical reporting fellowships for women journalists. Our fellowships offer valuable experience reporting for Global Press through cross-border collaborations, revelatory investigations and ambitious explanatory news projects.

Shifting Democracies Fellows will examine changing governance structures in countries around the world, and how those shifts are interconnected. During this two-year, full-time fellowship, you will work as an investigative and explanatory journalist, participate in advanced skills training and be part of an international cohort of women journalists, all working and living in their home countries. A dynamic self-starter, each fellow is responsible for finding and conceiving of the highest-quality news content. Fellows are from and live full time in the one of the 15 target coverage locations. Fellows work collaboratively with other fellows, editors and production team members around the world. Fellows take part in robust learning journeys throughout the course of the two-year fellowship.

Yearly Compensation

Asia $15K - $25K USD/YR

Africa $15K - $25K USD/YR

LATAM $20K - $30K USD/YR

Eastern Europe $15K - $25K USD/YR

Responsibilities

Produce News Content - 60%

• Produce investigative and explanatory news content (including photojournalism and multimedia content) about how democracy is shifting in specific locations and how those shifts are interconnected.
  
  

Newsroom Learning - 20%

• Participate in learning programming that include advanced skills training, a speaker series, mentorship, professional development and so much more.
  
  

Editorial Collaboration - 15%

• Collaborate consistently and deeply with the full editorial team to identify opportunities for global, overlapping coverage.
  
  

Program Ambassadorship - 5%

• Be an ambassador for the program and your reporting, engaging in publication partner relationships, social media conversations and networking engagements.
  
  

Qualifications

• Live full-time in one of the 15 coverage countries for the duration of the two-year fellowship
• Have at least five years of prior newsroom, reporting or related experience
• Have a track record of producing high-quality journalism
• Be fluent in English (news stories can be written in native language)
• Be passionate about visual storytelling and have an interest in developing photojournalism skills
• Have basic technology skills, access to regular internet access and experience using word processing and spreadsheet software
• Be a collaborative team player with strong communication skills
  
  

Application Instructions

Candidates Will Submit

• A current, English-language resume
• A two-page (1,000 word) cover letter stating the gaps they see in coverage of how democracy is shifting in their country, and what role their journalism would play in filling those gaps.
• A portfolio of three (3) work samples with a brief explanation of an editor’s role in each.
• Three (3) photos they have taken either personally or professionally that demonstrate their photography experience.
  
  

Note: The use of AI in the creation of any application materials will immediately disqualify candidates.

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