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Applications now open for McGraw fellowships

The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism, a new initiative established at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, is now offering fellowships to accomplished business journalists starting in the spring of 2014.

The aim of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is to support in-depth, ambitious coverage of critical issues related to the global economy and business. In an age when many news organizations no longer have the resources to tackle complex, time-consuming stories, the Fellowships will enable experienced journalists to do the deep reporting needed to produce a serious piece of investigative, analytic, or narrative journalism.
Eligibility

The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is open to anyone with at least five years professional experience in journalism. Freelance journalists, as well as reporters and editors currently working at a news organization, may apply.

Applications will be accepted periodically through 2014. The upcoming deadline for applications is May 15, 2014.

Typically, it’ll award grants of $5,000 a month for one to three months; in exceptional cases, it’ll consider longer grants based upon specific proposals. It’ll look for applicants with a proven ability to report and execute a complex project in their proposed medium; ideally, candidates will also have a strong background or reporting expertise on the subject of their piece.

The McGraw Center will provide editorial supervision during the Fellowship. It will work with the Fellows to develop their projects during the reporting phase and will edit the completed stories. We will also assist with placing the articles. In some cases, it will partner with established print, radio or digital outlets; in others it will publish them as e-books or through the CUNY J-School’s book imprint. The stories will also run on the McGraw Center website.
How to Apply

Applicants should submit a well-focused story proposal of no more than three pages through the accompanying online form.

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.

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