Enterprise Reporting Grants up to $15K

McGraw Fellowship via the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Do you – or a reporter you know – have a great idea for a high-impact education story that “Follows the Money,” but few resources to get it done? If so, check out the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Applications are open for the Fall 2024 McGraw Fellowships. The Fellowships, awarded twice a year, provide experienced journalists with a grant of up to $15K and the editorial support needed to produce deeply-reported investigative or enterprise stories on critical economic, financial or business issues. Open to both freelance and staff journalists in all forms of media with at least five years’ professional experience. Journalists from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

The upcoming deadline to apply is October 6, 2024.

Previous McGraw Fellows have explored a wide array of topics – and you don’t need to be a business reporter to apply. Many McGraw Fellows have been generalists, or follow other beats such as education, the environment, health care or corporate accountability. Here are a few examples:

• Hazard NYC: Toxic Superfund Sites in the Age of Climate Change The CITY
• The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner NY Times
• ‘They Were Traumatized’: How a Private Equity-Associated Lender Helped Precipitate a Nursing Home Implosion Politico
• Across America clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built USA Today
• Black Farmers and Ranchers: It’s a Dying Deal Center for Public Integrity
• The Problem with PLUS: How Parents Buckle Under the Weight of College Debt US News & World Report

• Private equity sold them a dream of home ownership. They got evicted instead. Insider.com
• Should hotel chains be held liable for human trafficking? NewYorker.com
• Plant burgers are way better for the planet than beef. Are they sustainable? Vox
• Who Killed Overtime Pay? Capital & Main 
• Hurricane fallout creates financial ruin for Puerto Rico seniors with reverse mortgages USA Today and Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

• In Texas, teachers see savings eroded by bad bets on exotic stocks The Street

If you’d like to join them, you’ll find more information, an FAQ, and the application at www.mcgrawcenter.org. If you have further questions, you can contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu. We accept applications twice a year, in fall and spring. Spring 2025 applications will be due March 31, 2025.

The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism was established at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in January 2014 with the goal of enhancing the quality and depth of business and economic news coverage. In addition to providing funding and editorial support for veteran journalists, the Center offers training and scholarships for young reporters entering the field. The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in midtown Manhattan is the only publicly supported graduate journalism school in the Northeast. Led by Dean Graciela Mochkofsky, the School offers 16-month Master’s degree programs in Journalism and in Spanish Language Journalism.

CONTACT:
Jane Sasseen
Executive Director
McGraw Center for Business Journalism
mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu

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