EWA Reporting Fellowship: Applications Open for 20th Class

The Education Writers Association is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its 20th class of EWA Reporting Fellows. These micro-fellowships provide financial awards to journalists to undertake ambitious, enterprise reporting projects. 

To help journalists boost their reporting on key education issues, the 20th round will offer up to $5,000 to support stand-alone stories and smaller-scale projects on postsecondary education. Recipients are also eligible to apply for additional funding in future fellowship rounds. 

As of 2025, EWA has supported more than 170 reporting projects and provided more than $1.1 million in financial awards, resulting in innovative, impactful education stories in various media in communities around the country.

“We are proud to mark this milestone round of the EWA Reporting Fellowship,” said Kathy Chow, EWA’s executive director. “We look forward to continuing to support our members’ ambitious work.” 

EWA selects reporting fellows through a competitive application process. Recipients have significant flexibility in how to use the funds, including travel for reporting, relief from regular newsroom duties or attending workshops.

We are looking for projects that address any of the following topics:

• Efforts to remove structural barriers for low-income students in postsecondary settings.
• Efforts to help students navigate key transitions in their postsecondary journey, whether through workforce training, transferring between institutions and entering or re-entering the workforce. 
• Efforts to improve and expand postsecondary access and success in rural areas, including through training and connecting students to good jobs. 
• Efforts to support higher education programs for incarcerated students.
• Efforts to expand postsecondary pathways to meaningful employment.
• Efforts to reform higher education, including credit mobility programs. 

The deadline to apply is Friday, May 2 at 6 p.m. Eastern.  Applicants will be notified of their status by early June. For more about the fellowship opportunity, including a link to the application, start here.