Newswise — The deadline for applications for the Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion is approaching. Applications are will be accepted online for the Fellowship until midnight PST, December 19, 2011.
The fellowship, sponsored by the Knight Chair in Media and Religion and funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, offers stipends for American journalists to report and write stories that illuminate how religion, religious institutions, and religious people (1) affect change in on-the-ground social, political, and economic conditions; (2) circulate ideas and ideologies among home and diaspora communities; and (3) promote or inhibit religious and political coexistence and cooperation. Stories must be reported outside the U.S., although they may include an American context for contrast or comparison.
Staff reporters, affiliated freelancers and self-employed web journalists, working in the States or abroad, who cover politics, social and cultural issues as well as generalists and religion specialists and who are American citizens are encouraged to apply. Previous Knight Luce fellows are not eligible. Successful applicants will be awarded stipends from $5,000 to $25,000 to subsidize travel, living and miscellaneous costs. Early career journalists are invited to consider submitting proposals under $10,000 that may be experimental in nature. Proposals over $10,000 will be evaluated on the applicant’s expertise and publication plans.
Applications are due by December 19, 2011. Awards will be made in March 2012. Projects will be complete by December 2012. For more information about the Knight Luce Fellowship and to apply, visit: http://annenberg.usc.edu/Knight-Luce.aspx
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