Fellow Application

By end of summer, 16 Murrow News Fellows, including the inaugural cohort, are expected to be in the field, focused on civic affairs in underserved Washington communities. Their beats range from voting and water rights to housing and economic policies. Two more fellows begin their two-year stints in July, and a third in August. The remaining fellows will be placed with host news organizations selected in June for their plans to deepen citizens’ understanding of complex community issues and policies.

Now Recruiting for 7 fellows:
Use this link to apply for one or more of the following:

• Southeastern Washington: Apply Here
  The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin will increase coverage of entities that steer economy, including the ports and chambers of commerce in Walla Walla and Columbia counties.
• Jefferson County: Apply Here
  The weekly Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader will increase coverage of the town council, county commission and Port of Port Townsend.
• Pend Oreille County: Apply Here
  A partnership between the weekly Newport Miner and RANGE, a worker-owned cooperative in Spokane, will deepen coverage of local public policy, rural economics, and border issues while more deeply connecting readers in Spokane and Pend Oreille counties.
• South Snohomish County: Apply Here
  My Neighborhood News Network, a hyperlocal nonprofit, will increase coverage of government, education, housing, and related topics in Edmonds, Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace.
• Statewide: Apply Here
  Investigate West will team with local news organizations to bolster accountability journalism with a “collaborative investigative reporter” for under-resourced newsrooms.
• Statewide: Apply Here
  Cascade PBS (formerly Crosscut), and KNKX, an NPR station with studios in Tacoma and Seattle, will partner on a statewide politics and government reporting project focused on issues facing young adults in Washington and the power dynamics at play in elections and policy decisions.
• Whatcom and Skagit counties: Apply Here
  Cascadia Daily News will expand coverage in rural areas of the Skagit Valley and west slopes of the Cascade Range, focusing on public services, local government, infrastructure, agriculture, flooding and climate change, water rights, immigration and border security.
• Olympia:
  The Washington State Association of Broadcasters and Allied Daily Newspapers, working collaboratively to launch an Olympia bureau later this year, will direct a multimedia journalist to increase coverage of state government.