Fully Funded Dart Center Early Childhood Reporting Institute Scholarship

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Dart Center For Journalism & Trauma

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Deadline

30 November 2023

Study in

United States of America

Providers

Dart Center For Journalism & Trauma

Introduction

The Fully Funded Dart Center Early Childhood Reporting Institute Scholarship is holding a four-day reporting institute for reporters and editors worldwide who wish to deepen their knowledge of early childhood development and increase their capacity to report ethically and effectively on the youngest children and their caregivers. The reporting institute — part of the Dart Center’s ongoing Early Childhood Journalism Initiative — will be held March 8-11, 2024, at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.

This four-day global reporting institute will bring together journalists from around the world for panels, workshops, and skills-based training by leading researchers, clinicians, and child development experts and practitioners, as well as journalist-to-journalist conversations on how to translate these issues and themes into meaningful stories and salient, cross-cutting news coverage. The institute will offer opportunities for knowledge sharing, source development, and peer-to-peer learning and continue to grow a global network of journalists dedicated to reporting on young children and caregivers with insight, accuracy, sensitivity, and depth.

This four-day reporting institute is the latest program of the Early Childhood Journalism Initiative, launched by the Dart Center in 2017, to encourage science-informed, child-centered reporting that also examines caregivers' mental health and wellbeing.

Benefits

The benefits of the Fully Funded Dart Center Early Childhood Reporting Institute Scholarship are:

1. Roundtrip international or domestic travel, 3-4 nights of hotel lodging, ground transportation to/from NYC airports, and most meals will be covered for 25 selected participants. Health insurance, travel insurance, visa fees, and ground transportation in the home country will not be covered.

2. Travel visas: If selected for the institute, the Dart Center will provide formal letters of acceptance to accompany visa applications. The Dart Center cannot cover fees associated with applying for travel visas or assist in obtaining a visa to travel to the U.S.

Eligibility

The eligibility criteria for the Fully Funded Dart Center Early Childhood Reporting Institute Scholarship are stated below:

1. Reporters and editors working in print, digital, audio, photography, television, and video with at least three years’ professional experience are eligible to apply. Editor-reporter pairs will be considered when applicable. Student journalists are not eligible.

2. The full program will be conducted in English. Strong spoken English proficiency is required.

Others

To submit a completed application, you will need:

1. Resume / CV

2. Professional Bio

3. Letter of interest: Your letter should discuss your work as a journalist, your experiences reporting on children or caregivers, challenges you’ve encountered or particular events or experiences that have informed your outlook and/or professional trajectory, and what you hope to take away from the institute. (No more than two pages)

4. Two recent and relevant work samples:

- Your work sample should have been published or broadcast within three years.
- You must have worked as a Reporter or Editor on the story or project.
- If your work sample is in a language other than English, please submit it with an English transcript.

5. Two letters of recommendation from professional references: You will be asked to provide an email address for each of your recommenders, and they will be contacted directly by Submittable to upload their recommendation for your application. The deadline for recommendations is November 1, 2023.

Applications will not be accepted by past recipients of the Dart Center’s Early Childhood Journalism Initiative, employees of Columbia Journalism School, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, or student journalists.