2025 Media Fellowship

Company Information

The Nova Media Fellowship program supports outstanding print, digital, and/or broadcast journalists and nonprofit newsrooms who are reporting on the complex, intertwined factors that affect health and well-being. With funding support from the Nova Institute, Media Fellows are encouraged to pursue creative new directions and pursue stories that are timely, comprehensive, and impactful. Nova Media Fellows have published their work in the New York Times, the Guardian, Science, Grist, Bloomberg, Eos, Knowable, Science Friday, and more.

The Media Fellowship program provides journalists an opportunity to explore a broad vision of health and well-being and the inadequacy of a health framework that focuses primarily on disease. Media Fellows can play an important role in translating research findings and analyses for a range of audiences, combining data with stories that inform the public and engage policymakers in order to change attitudes. 

Qualifications

• Ideal applicants are full-time journalists with established records of publication or broadcast in local, regional, or national markets. Local, community, nonprofit and/or student-led newsrooms are also invited to apply
• Proposals may highlight international issues and/or involve international travel, but Media Fellows themselves must be based in the United States for the entire 12-month cohort term.
• Applicants must outline a set of deliverables that will reflect a year’s worth of ambitious work.
• Deliverables must aim to reach the targeted audiences via publication and dissemination during the term of the fellowship, though we understand that some work may not be published until after the term has ended. The Media Fellowship does not support research-only projects that do not include a plan for publication.

Duties

• Attend bi-monthly virtual check-ins with Media Fellows and expect Media Fellows to attend key in-person meetings, including one scheduled for October 12-15, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. We also encourage participation in monthly online Nova Scholars and Fellows meetings as well as other virtual Nova events, trainings, and professional development opportunities.
• Media Fellows have full editorial control over their projects and conduct their work independently. Stories must be science-based and report accurately on pertinent ideas, questions, and debates.
• Media Fellows should strive to disseminate their work as widely as possible across a range of audiences, including general news readerships, policymakers, scientists, business leaders, and/or local communities.

How to Apply

Apply with external link.

Application Deadline

May 19th, 2025

https://novainstituteforhealth.org/our-communities/media-fellows/2025-media-fellowship-overview/