New America Media Opportunities, Fellowships & Events

DEADLINE APPROACHING!! Earn $40k a year as a Butler Koshland Fellow. The program is looking for an independent, intelligent, and highly-motivated person to serve a one-year appointment as a Fellow to Marty Krasney, executive director of a new program: the 14th Dalai Lama Global Scholars and Fellows Program.For more detailed information, please click here. Contact: bkfellowship@gmail.com.DEADLINE: July 12, 2010.

DEADLINE APPROACHING!! Society of Environmental Journalists Fund for Environmental Journalism is accepting applications for grants of up to $2,500 to help underwrite environmental reporting projects and entrepreneurial ventures. Click here for more information. DEADLINE: July 15, 2010

The HIV Prevention Research Advocacy Fellowship pairs 10 emerging leaders in advocacy and activism with existing organizations to develop and execute creative, context-specific projects focused on HIV prevention research. Please read all the accompanying documents. Contact: avac@avac.org DEADLINE: July 19, 2010

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowshipprogram is designed for mid-career journalists who want to deepen their knowledge of psychological trauma and improve coverage of violence, conflict and tragedy.The fellowship covers all travel and ground expenses. Fellowships are open to print, broadcast and online reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years of experience.DEADLINE: July 21, 2010

$250 available in the first-ever Pluralism Project Photo & Video contest. Call for digital images and digital videos that convey the vibrancy of religious diversity in the USA. DEADLINE: August 1, 2010, 5PM EST

Travel stipends available for a two day training on health reporting in New Orleans, LA on August 11 -13, 2010. The training will enable journalists to interact, learn from one another, and share strategies for reporting on health care and health disparities. Contact: Sherice Perry, sperry@familiesusa.org, 202-628-3030. For more information, click here.

Don't miss a special 5-day IRE boot camp, August 16-20, 2010, hosted by San Diego State University and The Watchdog Institute. Learn how to use spreadsheets and databases to analyze data, plus how to download data, how to convert it from text, where to look for it on the Web, and more. Contact: Stephanie Sinn, stephanie@ire.org

The Rory Peck Awards, honoring the work of professional freelance cameramen and women is calling for entries for 2010. The competition is free to enter. Entries must have had their first broadcast between August 1, 2009 and July 31, 2010.DEADLINE: September 6, 2010.

The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism provide California journalists with an opportunity to gain insights into community health issues and to learn multimedia reporting skills during two four-day sessions in Los Angeles October 21-24, 2010 and January 20-23, 2011. All-expenses-paid fellowships are open to print, broadcast and online reporters, photographers, editors and producers. Click here to register. DEADLINE: September 2, 2010.

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) and Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts are calling for submissions that are reflections, critiques, and analysis on how the way we think about race, religion, etc has been change by 9/11. More information here. Contact: info@saalt.org DEADLINE: October 15, 2010.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is offering a $25,000 stipend and half the tution for graduate study in the US for applicants 30 and younger who are either a resident alien, someone who has been naturalized as a US citizen, or the child of a US naturalized parent. DEADLINE: Novemeber 1, 2010