Past Opportunities

Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Attitudes about climate change Dr. Jonathon Schuldt is an associate professor of communication at Cornell University and Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. He can discuss topics including: Factors that predict people’s attitudes about climate change; The psychology of how people think about climate change; Trends […]

Are you thinking of becoming a freelancer but wonder what obstacles and challenges you will deal with?  Come to this IRE webinar and find out:  How to pitch an investigationWho to pitch to and whenDealing with contractsNegotiating pay for a projectFinding documents on a budgetBuilding your team of success (lawyers, story contacts, etc) Whether you’re […]

The application deadline for the Maynard 200 Fellowship program has been extended until Monday, April 10 by 11:59 PM (PDT). This will be the only deadline extension! Maynard 200 is the cornerstone program in the Maynard Institute’s efforts to expand the diversity pipeline in news media and dismantle structural racism in newsrooms. Since 2018, the Maynard Institute has trained […]

The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 fellowships. Fellows get $10,000 to report on a project related to mental health, plus training from The Carter Center. Applications are open until April 7. NOTE: COLab’s own Susan Greene is a previous recipient of this fellowship. The Carter Center’s […]

Make your work more efficient at this free, 1-hour SCORE workshop on how to use Google Workspace tools as a small business. Learn more and register here.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in February showed record levels of sadness in teen girls, as well as increased sexual violence. It’s the latest evidence that American children are not developing as well as they could physically, mentally and emotionally, with factors ranging from environmental stressors to COVID and obesity. While few […]

The Colorado Citizen Observers Pilot Project seeks to create a new path for civic engagement using the power of people and mobile devices. We will train people to attend, observe, and record government meetings so we can share original, accurate, non-partisan documentation of the proceedings with the public and news media. The project is being implemented […]

Applications are due April 3, 2023 IRE23 fellowships are available for the following communities: –All  journalistsWomen who are journalism students or early-career professional journalists (three years or less of post-college work experience)–Journalists, students and educators of color–U.S. early-career (five or fewer years of post-college work experience) TV journalists interested in investigative reporting–Journalism students in Arkansas, […]

Got a great idea for a high-impact story that ‘Follows the Money’ but few resources to get it done?  The McGraw Fellowships provide up to $15,000 and editorial support for journalists to produce deeply-reported investigative or enterprise stories on critical economic, financial and business issues — and you don’t need to be a business reporter […]