Religion News Service (RNS) and Interfaith America are pleased to announce the 2022-2023 RNS/IA Religion Journalism Fellowship. This fellowship serves to develop future religion news journalists by deepening their understanding of religious expression in individual lives and civic life and to develop skills specific to covering religion, belief, faith, and spirituality. The 2022-23 fellowship builds on the success of the inaugural class, in which more than a dozen stories by four fellows appeared on RNS and in RNS subscriber publications.
The fellowship will run from September 2022 to March 2023. The fellows will be awarded a $4000 stipend and expected to report and write at least one feature religion story per month, which will be published on the RNS website and the Interfaith America Magazine., and will receive a fellowship certificate upon completion.
Applications are open to all journalism graduates who have completed their degree in the past three years, and to freelance reporters who may not have a journalism degree but have at least a year of relevant reporting experience.
Accepting applications through June 30, 2022.