African Development Journalism Fellowships

African Development Journalism Fellowships are administered by the International Center for Journalists with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The program places Knight International Journalism Fellows in four African countries to lead projects that improve coverage of poverty and development issues, with one year of training and mentoring for journalists and funded reporting trips outside capitals. It aims to build networks of citizen journalists and improve business-management practices in development journalism.

One year of training and mentoring, funding for in-depth reporting trips, and networks of citizen-journalist stringers; aid in improving business-management practices in development journalism.

Fellows must be fluent in the language of the deployment region and have at least 10 years of experience in journalism or related fields; open to journalists of any nationality for assignments of up to a year.

Applications are currently being accepted for the program; see the provided fellowship website for details.