The award is intended to the cover the research costs involved in producing a significant foreign reporting project (e.g. travel, accommodation, rental equipment, translation, personnel support). Applicants with innovative perspectives on pressing global issues and imaginative ideas about how to effectively report them are encouraged to apply.
The Fellowship is a Research Grant providing funds of up to $25,000 administered by Carleton University. Applicants need not pitch a story that uses the entire sum.
The Fellowship is open to Canadians, and non-Canadians holding a valid Canadian work permit, who are working as freelance or full-time journalists in any medium.
Online application.