DEADLINE: Vermont Law and Graduate School Summer Media Fellowships

The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law and Graduate School is seeking applicants for Summer Media Fellowships. This year the center is accepting 3 journalists focused on environmental law and policy and 2 focused on animal law and policy. The fellowships are open to full-time journalists who cover environmental issues such as natural resources, energy, legal affairs, public health, animal law and policy, and other environment-related subjects.

Selected media fellows have access to our distinguished faculty and visiting policy leaders, meet for on- or off-record conversations with these experts, develop new insights, and gain new sources. Each fellow will choose to audit one or two courses from a selection of topics within their specific fellowship category.

Our three Environmental Law Media Fellows audit environmental courses for two weeks in June or July. These fellows will receive a $1,250 stipend, free housing, and a tuition waiver (travel not included) (one week is available at a $625 stipend).

Also, thanks to funding from the American Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®), our two Animal Law Media Fellows will receive free housing, a tuition waiver, a $750 stipend, and travel reimbursement. Fellows may audit the weekend-intensive Undercover Investigations of Animal Operations or one-week Animal Welfare Law course.

Media fellows also take part in the Summer Session’s lunch series, “Hot Topics in Environmental Law,” delivering a 45-minute, informal lecture on an environmental, food and agriculture, or animal law and policy topic of their choosing. Outside of classroom time, fellows can also enjoy the beauty of our campus, historic South Royalton, and rural Vermont. Family members are welcome.

Fellowships are open to journalists who cover issues such as natural resources, energy, legal affairs, public health, food and agriculture, animal law and policy, and other environment related subjects. They are open to staff, freelance, and independent reporters, writers, editors, and producers who are working full-time as journalists. Journalism students and teachers, public relations practitioners, and contributors to newsletters, magazines, and other media controlled by industry, government, or advocacy groups are not eligible.

Fellows are selected based on the quality of their ability to reach a broad audience including the applicant’s work history, samples, and commitment to covering environmental law and policy, animal protection, or agriculture and farm systems topics and their potential for increasing understanding of these issues nationwide.

VLGS looks for journalists who are from different geographic areas, at different career stages, in different types of media, and who work for a variety of news organizations. The deadline for applications is Sunday, March 16, 2025.

Apply here.

For questions or inquiries, please contact ELC@vermontlaw.edu.

VLGS looks for journalists who are from different geographic areas, at different career stages, in different types of media, and who work for a variety of news organizations. Journalists from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and other underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply.