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AP-NORC offering fellowships on economics of aging, long-term care

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research is offering two new residential fellowships for print or broadcast journalists.

One will focus on the economics of Americans working longer, and the other will focus on long-term care and healthy aging in the United States.

These fellowships will enable the selected journalists to spend 10 months at a competitive salary learning the techniques of using data and research to do enterprise reporting about these two important issue areas.

As an AP-NORC Journalism Fellow, you will:
• Be mentored by a University of Chicago faculty member.
• Have opportunities to take courses and attend conferences and workshops.
• Have access to NORC resources, University of Chicago faculty, and special courses.
• Develop goals for the term of the fellowship in collaboration with senior AP-NORC staff and earn a performance bonus based on successful achievement of these mutually agreed upon goals.
• Work one-on-one with an AP editor. Produce in-depth research-based enterprise journalism distributed nationally and worldwide by AP.

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.