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McGraw Fellowship taking winter applications

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

The McGraw Fellowships provide accomplished journalists with the resources and editorial support to do the deep reporting needed to produce distinguished stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the global economy.

The upcoming deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2015.

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

Previous McGraw Fellows have produced stories on wide variety of topics. Jay Greene, a senior reporter for the Seattle Times, wrote a three-part series on online giant Amazon’s legal and cultural stumbles in Europe, while Nate Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting produced a longform digital story and two Emmy-nominated video segments for PBS NewsHour on the questions surrounding the Chinese acquisition of a major U.S. food producer. And Maria Perez of the Naples Daily News recently published a multimedia package on the challenges and opportunities ahead for the Cuban economy as sanctions are eased.

Other McGraw Fellows are working currently on projects exploring such areas as the rapid rise of unregulated genetic testing, the economic links between the pharmaceutical industry and increased heroin addiction, the growing threat of cyber-attacks risks on the global financial system, and Silicon Valley’s big bet on meat substitutes.

You’ll find more information about the McGraw Fellowships and the online application on the McGraw Center website.

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.