Newsletter 1/24/24

Report for America, Marty Baron, Gordon Fellowship, YJI survey, pitching workshop

YALE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE

Jan. 24, 2024 Newsletter | YJI Substack | NEW YJI Website

Email angela.perez@yale.edu and isaac.yu@yale.edu with questions.

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Dear YJI,

Gooooooooooooooood morning from the Yale Journalism Initiative! (And happy, happy birthday to our very own Ángela!!!)

Whether this is your first or hundredth newsletter from us, we are so excited to share new opportunities and see you all at our events this semester! Buckle in: we are planning some amazing speaker visits (Marty Baron! Martine Powers! And so many more!) and awesome writing events (join our pitching workshop!). Do you have questions about YJI? Check out our new website!

Please fill out our YJI survey to help us plan for future programming and events! One lucky person who fills it out will receive one of our brand-new YJI-branded notebooks!

As always, you can schedule with Ángela and Isaac on Calendly to discuss campus journalism, internship opportunities and freelance pitching. No question is too small! Our director, Haley, is available at haley.cohengilliland@yale.edu. You can reach all of YJI at the same time by emailing yji@yale.edu. 

Lastly, a reminder that Haley is accepting applications for two YJI fellows, to replace both of us for next year. Apply ASAP. We can confidently say this has been the best! job! ever! (search for YJI on the student jobs portal). We have so much fun meeting all of you, planning events and writing this very newsletter. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out!

AND FILL OUT OUR SURVEY!

Your YJI fellows,

Ángela and Isaac

Schedule one-on-ones on Calendly with Ángela and Isaac.

EVENTS

Check out a full list of upcoming YJI events here. For more journalism events on campus, check the Poynter Fellowship page. Fill out our YJI survey to suggest events.

Friday, Feb 2 @ 12pm: Pitch workshop with Haley, Location TBD

Haley will host a pitching workshop. In addition to walking through the tenets laid out in our new pitch guide, we will parse a successful pitch and workshop students’ pitches. The event will be capped and you can RSVP here. If you aren’t granted a spot in this workshop, we will be hosting several others over the course of the semester. 

Wednesday, Feb 7 @ 6pm @ the Branford Common Room: Carina Del Valle Schorske, Literature and Social Justice Writers Series

Carina del Valle Schorske is a Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine, for which she has written about post-pandemic dance floors, leaving therapy, and Bad Bunny. Her forthcoming book, The Other Island, is an exploration of empire, migration, and the transmission of culture in Puerto Rico. The winner of a National Magazine Award, she divides her time between New York City and San Juan.

Thursday, February 22, 2024 @ 12:15 pm @ Location: Yale Law School, Room TBD 

Animal Agriculture’s Climate Lobbying and Misinformation Strategies with Georgina Gustin. Register for this in-person event using this form. Lunch will be provided. (Co-sponsored with The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School and Poynter)

Friday, February 23, 2024 @ 12 pm @ Trumbull Common Room

Marty Baron on “Collision of Power” - Marty Baron, the former Executive Editor of The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Miami Herald, will be talking about his new book and answering student questions. YJI will distribute a limited number of copies of “Collision of Power”. Trumbull has generously agreed to co-host this event as a college tea in their common room. In keeping with Trumbull policy, attendance will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Those who previously RSVPed to the event via our link should be able to fit in the room, but we can’t guarantee it. 

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Please check out our INTERNSHIPS GUIDE for potential first-time gigs and consider applying for a Block fellowship.

Report for America: two-year fellowship due Jan. 31 (see below)

Insider: People and Culture Fellow, Spring on a rolling basis.

Scripps: News Internships in KY, MT, VA, MI, CA. Summer on a rolling basis.

Hearst: News, Creative Service, and Engineering internships in Omaha, NE. Summer on a rolling basis.

NEW:  McClatchy / The Fresno Bee. Summer due ASAP.

NEW: Denver Post. Summer internship due ASAP.

NEW: St. Louis NPR. Summer internships in news, visuals and events due Feb. 4

Fox News: Summer internship due Feb. 11

CIPE Journalism Fellowships: Summer Feb. 14

NEW: Gordon Fellowship due Feb. 19 (see below)

NEW: Southern California Public Radio / LAist.com. Summer due Feb. 25

NEW:  ESPN / NABJ. Summer internship due Feb. 29

NEW:  Verto Literary. Summer internship due April 1. (You need to not be on Yale wifi to access the link).

Block fellowships opening soon for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Sacramento Bee 

Are you unsure of how to get your first internship in journalism? Reach out to Haley or sign up for a one-on-one meeting with Ángela or Isaac. And, check out our INTERNSHIPS GUIDE.

NEW: FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDING

Due Feb 14: CIPE Journalism Fellowships

The Career for International and Professional Experiences has a number of fellowships designed to support unpaid or low-paid internship experiences or independent projects over the summer. These include the Bildner, Shana Alexander, and Yale College Journalism fellowships. Sometimes, you can even submit a proposal for this funding and leverage it into an internship (for more on that, ask Isaac). 

Due Feb 19: The 2024 Gordon Summer Journalism Fellowship

The Gordon Summer Journalism Fellowships are intended to support and inspire independent summer journalism projects in the U.S. or abroad, particularly (but not exclusively) for aspiring journalists, writers, editors, and other participants in the information media. See the attached program info sheet. You can receive between $1,000 and $8,000! This can complement an internship or be the main focus of your summer. The application can be found here. (The deadline is currently misrepresented on the CIPE fellowships website. They are fixing the error now.)

The Fellowship is open to: (1) students who are enrolled in or have completed ENGL 467, including Yale Journalism Scholars, and (2) active participants in the Yale Daily News and its affiliated publications. 

Due Feb 22: Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award

The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award is a grant of $12,500 to support the work of a promising early-career nonfiction writer on a story that uncovers truths about the human condition.

Due Mar 29: 2024 LEAP Student Grant Program Call for Applications

The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School invites applications for its student grant program.  Current Yale students at any level (professional, doctoral, master’s degree, undergraduate) are invited to apply. Applicants may work individually or in teams. The grant program supports student-led research and creative projects that advance understanding of, draw attention to, and/or develop strategies to address the urgent threats facing non-human animals. All current Yale students can submit proposals for term time and summer projects. For details on how to apply, see the LEAP’S website. 

Funding awards can range from $250 to $2,000. The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 29, 2024 at 12 pm ET. Decisions will be made by mid-April 2024. Projects should be completed by December 1, 2024, though this deadline is flexible for longer-term projects. Please reach out to LEAP Postgraduate Fellow Laurie Sellars (laurie.sellars@yale.edu) if you have any questions about the program or potential projects.

WORK OPPORTUNITIES

NEW: YJI Director Haley Cohen Gilliland would like to work with a student (or several students) who can scan books for her. You would take the books and complete the scanning on your own time via Genius Scan. (She would pay for the app and there would be no need to do the scanning in her office.) If you’re interested, contact her at haley.cohengilliland@yale.edu. Pay is $15 an hour. 

NEW: Report for America: Full-time job applications with its two-year reporting corps program due January 31. These include statehouse positions with the Associated Press and a variety of beats in newsrooms nationwide.

Inside the Newsroom, a newsletter run out of Australia, which includes a jobs database of about 1,200 journalism jobs, is available to Yale students. If you want to subscribe for full access, you can for a discounted rate of $2.50 a month here. 

Email us at yji@yale.edu, haley.cohengilliland@yale.edu, angela.perez@yale.edu and isaac.yu@yale.edu. See our full archives on our Substack website. Schedule one-on-ones on Calendly with Ángela and Isaac. For information on YJI, check out the YJI Website. Fill out our spring survey here.

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