Knight-Bagehot seeks applicants for 25-26

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship offers experienced journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding of business and economics, finance and technology.

Fellows spend two semesters at Columbia Journalism School and take most of their classes at Columbia Business School. They meet weekly for off-the-record seminars and dinners with top journalists, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders.

In scope and depth, it is the most comprehensive and rigorous business journalism fellowship in the world. We accept up to 10 fellows each year.

Highlights of the Fellowship

Deepen your skills. Take core MBA classes such as corporate finance, accounting and economics and choose from high-level journalism classes like investigative techniques, book writing and data reporting.

Get paid to learn. Receive full tuition, health insurance and $7,800 a month. Subsidized Columbia housing is also available.

Expand your access. Attend private weekly meetings with industry executives. Choose from daily offerings of lectures and workshops with top journalists and business leaders. Join the Knight-Bagehot alumni network of 400+ former fellows working in news organizations around the world.

Step back to step forward. Use the break from deadlines and newsroom responsibilities to chart your next challenges.

The fellowship is named for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which established an endowment for the program, and Walter Bagehot (pronounced BADGE-it), the 19th-century editor of The Economist. The program also depends on grants from a number of other charitable foundations, corporations and publishing organizations for a significant portion of its annual budget.

Applications for the Class of 2025-26 are open.

Join us for an online info session and learn how you can spend a year at Columbia diving deep into money and business.

Knight-Bagehot Info Sessions – all times NY/Eastern:

Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Register
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Register
Monday, December 16, 2024, 4-5 p.m. Register
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Register

Deadline to apply is Jan. 31, 2025.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.