DEADLINE: The Uproot Project Fellowship

At The Uproot Project, we believe important environmental stories need to be told. We believe that underrepresented journalists bring critical and fresh perspectives to covering these stories.

The Uproot Project Fellowship offers funding to seven journalists to pursue reporting projects over the course of a year. Fellows will receive up to $2,000 to cover travel and other reporting expenses and will also receive support from Uproot to place their stories with a media outlet, if requested. Fellows’ projects should focus on stories related to one of four categories: (1) environmental justice, (2) climate solutions, (3) water, food, & culture, and (4) science. Projects should be aimed at highlighting how the climate crisis and key environmental issues of our time are inextricably linked with other forms of inequity. 

The fellowship is open to underrepresented, early-career climate journalists including but not limited to journalists who are relatively new to the environmental/climate beat, freelancers who have not had full-time newsroom experience, recent journalism school graduates, and scientists without traditional journalism training but with strong writing clips and content knowledge. 

Applicants must be members of The Uproot Project. (If you haven’t joined Uproot yet, you can apply for membership here. It’s free to join!)

Deadline: March 1, 2025.

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