McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism

Applications are now open for the Fall 2026 McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism.  If you have a great idea for a high-impact education story that “Follows the Money” but need funds to get it done, we’d love to hear from you.

The McGraw Fellowships, an initiative of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, provide experienced journalists with a grant up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories that delve into critical issues related to the global economy, business or finance. Both freelance and staff journalists in all forms of media with at least five years’ professional experience are eligible. Journalists from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

The upcoming deadline to apply is October 12, 2026. If you’d like to learn more, please join us on Zoom for McGraw Fellowship Office Hours at 11 am EST every Wednesday through 10/7/26.

Previous McGraw Fellows have explored a wide variety of topics — and you don’t need to be a business reporter to apply. Many have been generalists, or cover beats such as education, health care or the environment. Others focus on inequality or corporate accountability. Here are some examples of their work:

• He helped clean up the Fox River. Then cancer came for him. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof. Mother Jones
• California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields LA Times
• Clean energy bans skyrocket under Trump USA Today
• Haitians in Ohio alter daily life, forging new abilities, as immigration chaos grinds on Haitian Times
• Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences. ProPublica
• No roads home: How a chronic housing shortage keeps reservation communities in crisis Montana Free Press
• 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
• In Texas, teachers see savings eroded by bad bets on exotic stocks The Street

For further information, go to www.mcgrawcenter.org or contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu.

The McGraw Center for Business Journalism was established at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2014 by the family of the late Harold W. McGraw, Jr., former chairman and CEO of McGraw-Hill and long-time publisher of BusinessWeek magazine. The Center is dedicated to enhancing the depth and quality of business and economic news coverage through training, student scholarships and support for veteran journalists. We accept McGraw Fellowship applications twice a year, in spring and fall. Spring 2027 applications will be due April 12, 2027.

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

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