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Early-career fellowships at The Open Notebook

The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers (less than two years’ writing experience) is open for the next two rounds of the fellowship, from January 2, 2020 – August 31, 2020 and July 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021.

The eight-month fellowship is remote and part-time. Fellows will report and write six articles for publication at The Open Notebook with the guidance of a mentor who will help shape story ideas, provide reporting and writing guidance, edit final copy, and offer career-development mentoring. Fellows and mentors will also be part of a professional discussion group composed of former fellowship participants and TON editors. Each fellow will receive a stipend of US$4,200.

More details and application form is here. Entries are due by October 20, 2019.

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Going digital: inside science journalism’s newest online outlets

The Open Notebook (which is a brilliant resource for science journalists, in case you haven’t already discovered it) has just featured a Q&A with the editors of some of the newer digital science journalism outlets, and online publications that include science coverage, namely Undark, Hakai, Buzzfeed, Axios and STAT.

It offers a fascinating glimpse into the funding models of this new world of online journalism, and there’s also some useful information there for freelances looking for new outlets to pitch to. Check out the article here.