Application Deadline: January 6, 2021
Applications are open for the FASPE Journalism Fellowship Program 2021. Each year, FASPE Journalism awards fellowships to 14 to 16 journalism students and early-career journalists. Fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, where they visit key sites of Nazi history and participate in daily seminars led by specialized faculty. The program couples the power of place with academic rigor and many informal opportunities for creative exchange.
FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work.
FASPE Journalism challenges its Fellows to recognize their responsibility to act as ethical leaders in their careers in journalism and the media. FASPE begins by examining the actions and choices of German and international journalists in covering and supporting Nazi policies. FASPE then draws on this historical example to help Journalism Fellows grasp their role and responsibility as individuals with influence in their communities and to lead them to identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing journalists and media institutions at large.
Topic Areas
FASPE Journalism Fellows examine topics such as:
• the complicity of German and foreign journalists in Nazi policies through inadequate coverage or outright misrepresentation of the crimes being committed.
• the impact of technology on journalism.
• the role of journalists in electoral politics and in holding power accountable.
• the nature and propriety of advocacy journalism.
• normalizing aberrant behavior through media coverage.
• the challenge of reporting in an era in which fake news and accusations of “fake news” are common.
• balancing the costs and benefits of access tactics to address ethical issues within the journalism community or media outlets.
Fellowship
• FASPE Fellowships are fully funded so that financial ability does not affect participation.
Eligibility
FASPE Journalism applicants must be interested in journalism as a career and fit into one of the following two categories:
• Be enrolled in a graduate program of any kind and planning to work as a journalist;
• Be working as a journalist with an undergraduate degree in any field received between May 2015 and May 2020 or a graduate degree in any field received between May 2019 and January 2021.
Selection Criteria
FASPE selects its Fellows on the basis of their academic background, personal and professional experiences, capacity for leadership and ability to contribute to the program and the alumni community.
Application
All applications must be submitted through the FASPE Submittable application portal. To ensure that you have the smoothest experience in applying, please be sure to first read through all instructions carefully.
For more information, visit FASPE Fellowship.
