Newsletter 1/31/23
Lots of internships and lots of events!
YALE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE
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Dear YJI,
Welcome back to another newsletter — check out newly-added events below!
This week, we’re sharing three basic things any aspiring journalist can do this semester, whether you’re looking to try out your first professional internship or nearing that post-graduation grind.
Write for a campus publication. Internship and job applications almost always require non-academic, published writing samples. Explore a range of types of journalism, and get better each time you publish! Check out this list of publications.
Read/listen to/watch more journalism. Get inspired and check out different genres, niches and writing styles. Remember that Yale provides free access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, and more.
Meet with YJI. We are here to answer your questions about all things journalism! Read about who we are here. You can email our director, Haley, at haley.cohengilliland@yale.edu or sign up on Calendly with Ángela and Isaac.
BONUS) Fill out our YJI spring survey to help us plan for future programming and events! One lucky person who fills it out will receive a slick new YJI-branded notebook!
This is your LAST REMINDER to apply to work as one of two YJI fellows, to replace both of us for next year (search for YJI on the student jobs portal).
Your YJI fellows,
Ángela and Isaac
Schedule one-on-ones on Calendly with Ángela and Isaac.
CAMPUS PUB FEATURE
The Yale Layer is an undergraduate publication aimed at fostering dialogue and creative expression about mental health and personal reflection in order to shed light on these topics and their relationship to our campus and our community. We publish a wide variety of writing such as poetry, personal essays, journalistic pieces, interviews, and more. In addition, we publish art in many mediums. For examples of our past editions, please visit our website here. We accept submissions year-round: for writing submissions, please email Ellie Huh (ellie.huh@yale.edu); for art submissions, please email Malik Figaro (malik.figaro@yale.edu); for any other questions, please email current president Amalya Cleland (amalya.cleland@yale.edu). Any submission may be anonymized per author/artist request.
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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.
Wednesday, Jan 31 @ 5:30pm: The New Journal Beyond the Issue Talk, St. Anthony Hall
This speaker series spotlights the people who bring each TNJ issue to life. Join them in discussing reproductive care in New Haven, based on TNJ writer and associate editor Maggie Grether’s article. She will be join with a local doula and midwife for the discussion.
[YJI] Friday, Feb 2 @ 12pm: Pitch workshop with Haley, HQ 422
We have a few spots left in our first pitching workshop of the semester. In addition to walking through the tenets laid out in our new pitch guide, we will parse a successful pitch and workshop students’ pitches. RSVP here. If you aren’t granted a spot in this workshop, we will be hosting several others over the course of the semester.
Saturday, Feb 3 @ 2pm @ HQ L02: Yale Women’s Leadership Conference Keynote Speaker Sally Buzbee, Executive Editor of the Washington Post
As part of the Yale Women's Leadership Initiative Conference from February 2-4 in HQ, Sally Buzbee will be coming to campus as the keynote speaker. There will also be a variety of other speakers, Q&As, and networking opportunities. Register here.
Tuesday, Feb 6 @ 5pm @ CCAM, 149 York St.: Cerise Castle, Creating Impactful News Across Multimedia
Journalist Cerise Castle, is an award-winning journalist specializing in arts & culture, civil rights, criminal justice, and human interest stories that have appeared in VICE News Tonight, NPR, MTV & the LA Times.
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.
[YJI] Thursday, Feb 8 @ 9:30am @ WLH 009: Every Which Way of Working with Leslye Davis
From filmmaking to podcasting to photography— multimedia journalist Leslye Davis weighs in on the versatility of form and making it work as a freelancer or a staffer. She is a writer and a filmmaker. During her time with The New York Times, she reported on domestic and international issues including America’s opioid crisis, sexual assault on college campuses, and the impact of the Afghanistan war on U.S. troops and their families. In 2020, she and her co-director Catrin Einhorn released a feature-length film called Father Soldier Son on Netflix. Davis was on the team of Times journalists who were awarded the Overseas Press Club’s David Kaplan Award for their coverage of the ISIS-led terrorist attacks in Paris. Her work has been recognized by World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International, and she was part of a team of Times journalists who were finalists for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Join us for a breakfast with her – RSVP here.
Monday, Feb 12 @ 12pm @ Winslow Auditorium, 60 College St.: Linda Villarosa, Storytelling for Social Justice and Health
Linda Villarosa is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality and public health. A former executive editor of Essence Magazine, she is the author of the book Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation. Under the Skin tells the full story of racial health disparities in America by revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and public health. Under the Skin was named a best book of 2022 by 6 media outlets, including NPR, the Atlantic and the Washington Post. It was honored as one of the top 10 books of 2022 by The New York Times Book Review and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Linda also contributed to The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project by highlighting race-based physiological myths that have endured in medical practice since slavery and an expanded version of her essay was included in the book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. Linda is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she is now a professor. She also teaches journalism, English and Black Studies at the City College of New York. Register here.
[YJI] Thursday, February 22 @ 12:15 pm @ 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)
Thursday, February 22 @ 12:15 pm @Pierson HOC House: A Conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin
Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University, where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies. Professor Griffin received her B.A. in History & Literature from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001), and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books, 2013).
[YJI] Friday, February 23 @ 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.
Friday, February 23 @ 10:15 am @ The Anlyan Center, Conference Room 107, 300 Cedar St.
Erin Reed (she/her) is a transgender journalist based in Washington, D.C.. She tracks LGBTQ+ legislation around the United States for her subscription newsletter, Erin In The Morning. Her work has been cited by the AP, Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many more major media outlets. You can follow her on twitter and tiktok @ErinInTheMorn. For Zoom information please contact christopher.gardner@yale.edu.
Friday, March 1 @ 11:30 am @ ZOOM: Alexandra Bregman, The Gollum Effect: Antiquities Acquisition at Yale and Beyond
Alexandra Bregman is a freelance art writer who has covered Asian art and antiquities for Architectural Digest, The Art Newspaper, Hong Kong-based Asian Art News, Tokyo-based Nikkei Asia, London-based Asian Art Newspaper and Forbes, where she is a regular contributor. She has also consulted for and lectured at a number of Indian art galleries in New York, as well as Columbia, New York University, Quinnipiac, and Yale. Prior art world experiences led her to travel to New Delhi, Dhaka, and Lahore. Bregman authored the book The Bouvier Affair: A True Story in 2019. She contributed a chapter, “A History of Art Business Journalism,” to the Routledge Companion to Business Journalism out this January, and remains a Yale Global Justice Fellow. Previously, Bregman was a Teaching Associate at the Columbia Journalism School Business and Economics program, from which she completed a Master of Arts, and completed a B.A. in English and Art History at Smith College, which included a year at Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. She is fluent in French with working knowledge of Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, and German.
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 (TODAY, 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: Billings Gazette: News internship in Montana, Summer due ASAP.
NEW: National Geographic: Documentary Film intern, Summer due ASAP.
NEW: McClatchy / The Fresno Bee: Summer due ASAP.
NEW: Denver Post: Summer internship due ASAP.
NEW: Kirkus: Freelance book reviewers of English and Spanish-language titles, on a rolling basis.
St. Louis NPR: Summer internships in news, visuals and events due Feb. 4
NEW: AAAS / Science magazine: News writing full-time internship from July to December, due Feb. 9
Fox News: Summer internship due Feb. 11
CIPE Journalism Fellowships: Summer Feb. 14 (see below)
Gordon Fellowship due Feb. 19 (see below)
Southern California Public Radio / LAist.com. Summer due Feb. 25
ESPN / NABJ. Summer internship due Feb. 29
Verto Literary. Summer internship due April 1. (You need to not be on Yale wifi to access the link).
NEW: KPRC Houston: Summer News/Sports/Weather/Digital internships, due April 19 for summer and July 26 for fall.
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.
INTERNSHIP
Due ASAP (rolling): Internship with Clive Stafford Smith, human rights lawyer
Clive Stafford Smith, the famous human rights lawyer, is looking for film/journalism students to intern with him and a team of legal interns over the summer. He is working on a documentary called Justice League, which will follow young law students as they set off on a trip through the deep South of the USA researching the wrongful execution of an innocent man. The internship is unpaid: interns will be expected to raise about $1,200, which Clive’s organization will match for a total of around $2,600 USD. Check out our YJI FAQ page for more information on funding opportunities. If interested, please email vacancies@wiredvideo.net. Find more information about the project here.
FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDING
money and support for independent reporting projects
ROLLING/Feb 12: The Pudding summer fellowship 2024 cohort
For visual storytellers: The 2024 Cohort is a summer fellowship geared towards current college or graduate-level students or recently-graduated applicants (roughly within the last year, December 2022 and onward), where you will have 10 weeks (June 18, 2024 to September 1, 2024) to author a project on The Pudding. Part-time (20 hours/week working on your project), remote-friendly (you control your own schedule), and available to international applicants. Participants will receive $7,200 as a stipend for the 2024 cohort.
Due Feb 14: Yale 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 18: Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting Fellowship
The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting invites applications from college juniors, seniors, graduate students, and recent graduates for its Summer 2024 Investigative Reporting Internship Program. Applicants can be placed at the New York Times, AP, NPR, WaPo, USA TODAY and other publications.
The internship places students in paid 10- to 12-week assignments working alongside investigative reporters and editors at some of the nation’s top news organizations. Students from traditionally underrepresented groups and those attending HBCUs and MSIs are especially encouraged to apply.
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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