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McGraw Center seeking spring fellowship applications

Do you — or a reporter you know — have a great idea for an investigative or enterprise story on a business or economic topic, but few resources to get it done? If so, the McGraw Center for Business Journalism would like to hear from you.

Spring 2017 applications are now open for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism launched in 2014.

The Fellowships, awarded twice a year, provide experienced journalists with the funds and editorial support needed to report in-depth stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the economy.

The upcoming deadline to apply is May 31.

• Each Fellow receives $5,000 a month for up to three months
• No residency is required; McGraw Fellows work from their own offices
• Open to both freelance and staff journalists with five years experience
• Applications accepted from both reporters and editors

Check out two new Fellowship pieces that have just been published: What Would Jesus Disrupt?, Mya Frazier’s story in Bloomberg Businessweek looking at how Silicon Valley is meeting Midwest evangelism at a megachurch founded by P&G executives, or Public Universities Get an Education in Private Industry, Molly McClusky’s examination of the growing role of corporate money in funding academic research for TheAtlantic.com.

Other previous Fellows have explored topics ranging from the conflicts of interest in the fast-growing, unregulated market for diagnostic genetic tests and the questions raised by the Chinese acquisitions of a major food company, to Silicon Valley’s efforts to build a better (plant-based) burger that will make the meat industry obsolete.

If you’d like to join them, you’ll find more information and the online application at www.mcgrawcenter.org. Feel free to contact us with any questions or if you have a project you’d like to discuss.

CONTACT:
Jane Sasseen
Executive Director
McGraw Center for Business Journalism
mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu
646-758-7781

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.