By Betsy Model, President
The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has announced that applications are being accepted for the Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion. The fellowship, sponsored by the Knight Chair in Media and Religion and funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, offers stipends for American journalists to report and write stories that illuminate how religion crosses geographic, temporal, and ideological borders, as well as how it establishes real and virtual boundaries.
Within the six-month period of their fellowship, fellows will travel outside the U.S. to report stories that explore how religion, religious institutions, and religious people effect change in on-the-ground social, political, and economic conditions. They might examine how ideas and ideologies circulate in home and diaspora communities or how religious and political coexistence and cooperation are promoted or inhibited. These stories will be developed for delivery on multiple platforms — print, radio, TV, and online. At the completion of their projects, several fellows will be invited to spend three days in residence at USC to present their work, hold master classes for journalism students, and give public lectures for the USC community.
Staff reporters, affiliated freelancers, and self-employed Web journalists working in the United States or abroad who cover politics and social and cultural issues are encouraged to apply, as are religion specialists and generalists.
Successful applicants will be awarded stipends ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 to subsidize their travel, living, and miscellaneous costs.
Please review the application requirements, here. To apply, click here or contact the Annenberg School using this form for more information.