Program dates: July 28, 2014 – August 9, 2014
Application deadline: March 26, 2014
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Working with some of the world’s leading science communicators, participants explore the creative use of words, images, action and technology, with the goal of fostering a more engaging role for science in public culture.
This is an immersive residency experience that is uniquely aimed at mid-career professionals in both science and communications. The program is structured around daily seminars and workshops on new forms of creative science communications. Emphasis is on group discussion and work, and participants will be urged to create outside their usual medium of scientific communication. At the end of the program, participants publicly present collaboratively created group projects using media such as the web, television, print, and three-dimensional scenarios that have developed under the influence of debates, visits, talks, and one-on-one dialogues.
The program is designed for people working in science and engineering, science communications, journalism, knowledge transfer, science outreach, science policy, and cultural industries. Up to 20 participants are accepted into the program each year: there is always a mix of researchers, educators, communications professionals, and creative practitioners.
Participants bring a rich array of experiences to the program. Each year will typically include professors, published authors or artists, managers and communications professionals, as well as graduate and postgraduate students. While diverse in skills, they share one trait — an interest in both science and communicating about science. A demonstrated commitment to science and its social relevance is required.
Successful applicants will have:
Extend your stay before or after this program by applying for a Self-directed Residency:
I saw the premiere of this show a couple weeks ago – a super-interesting mashup of portraiture, music, and radio storytelling. It was especially interesting to hear producer Emile Klein talk about his process. Definitely worth a visit to UnionDocs for the NYC debut! Feb 23, 7:30pm. Details below.
Get tickets while you still can! uniondocs.org/02-23-2014-unheard-america/
UNHEARD AMERICA, A NEW SERIES COMBINING RADIO STORYTELLING WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC, DEBUTS AT UNIONDOCS, BROOKLYN, NY, – Sunday, February 23th, 7:30pm, at UnionDocs, 322 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 11211. For one day only UnionDocs (UnDo) and national arts organization You’re U.S. come together, presenting seven stories that took a nation to create, each told in a mixture of radio and music. The event includes a Q&A with the artists, followed by a reception. Admission: $9 suggested donation
The stories, which tackle religion, race, family, and environment, were produced by Jeff Emtman and Emile Klein, who have embraced the musical concept of the ”mashup.” A children’s choir sings odes to a Virginian nun, an off-the-grid survivalist speaks over a Miami DJ’s peppy beats, a Hmong North Carolinian defines the nation within an ambient soundscape. Each story walks the line between the personal and the foreign, exploring America’s cross-cultural harmony.
Musical collaborators for UNHEARD AMERICA include the iSing choir/ Karen Linford/ Jungmee Kim (choral), the Blind Willies (folk), Phantom Fauna (ambient), Gabriel Zucker (orchestral), Zack Varland-Hopkins (down-tempo), Richard Haig (electronic), and JJ Beck (classical).
6 stories
Q&A w/ Klein, Emtman, MC Paul Barman, and select musical collaborators
Total Time: 95 minutes
BackStory is currently accepting applications for the following open staff positions. If you have questions about anything here, please put them in writing and send them to backstoryjobs@virginia.edu.
BackStory with the American History Guys is seeking an Editor to join its Charlottesville-based radio production staff. The Editor will coordinate production of each of the program’s weekly episodes, and supervise the editing of all show content, including host interviews, listener calls, script copy, and reported pieces. The Editor will also oversee audience outreach and engagement efforts for each episode, collaborating with fellow producers to utilize and develop the program’s social media and other digital assets. The Editor will also work closely with BackStory’s historian-hosts in the studio, directing their recording of interviews, analysis, and narration.
Competitive candidates will be passionate, curious, and skilled radio professionals who are enthusiastic about the program’s mission of making historical scholarship relevant and accessible to a broad audience. Experience editing the work of others is a must, and supervisory experience in a journalistic setting will be considered a definite plus. The Editor must be comfortable engaging intellectually challenging content under tight deadlines. Candidates with a background in U.S. history, American studies, or a related area of the humanities will be particularly well suited to the demands of the position.
View complete details and apply online through UVA Human Resources. >>
BackStory with the American History Guys is seeking an energetic, thoughtful, creative associate producer to join the show’s production team. This individual will be responsible for all aspects of show production, including research, generating segment ideas, booking, directing of hosts, scripting, field recording, and editing. Associate producers also assist in maintaining the program’s online presence and may help to create and disseminate related multimedia content.
Competitive candidates will share a passion for making the study of American history accessible and relevant to a broad public audience. Applicants should have extensive experience with audio and/or multimedia production software (preferably Pro Tools). They should possess excellent research, writing, conceptual, organizational, and decision-making abilities, have an active interest in current events, and feel comfortable engaging high-level humanities scholars and scholarship. A background or experience in the field of American history and journalism is preferred.
View complete details and apply online through UVA Human Resources. >>
BackStory is seeking a summer intern to join its Charlottesville-based staff. Although some remote work is possible, the majority of the four-month internship will take place at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, where the program is produced. Interns will be expected to devote 10-20 hours per week to the program, and will receive a stipend prorated to the number of hours they work, not to exceed $2,250 in total. If you are a student, we’re also willing to work with your host institution to arrange for school credit for the internship.
The intern will be involved in a wide range of production tasks, with a particular emphasis on maintaining and growing the program’s social media presence. He/she can expect to devote a significant portion of each week to cultivating and participating in the program’s social media presence. The intern will also sit in on editorial meetings, and participate in editorial discussions with staff producers. Interns receive basic training in the use of Pro Tools (the industry standard for digital audio editing), and basic studio engineering practices. Self-starters who display an interest in and facility for field reporting may also have the opportunity to report, voice, and produce stand-alone segments for the radio show.
The ideal candidate will have an active interest in the field of history, and will be an avid consumer — if not creator — of digital and/or audio media. We’re looking for someone with excellent research, writing, and organizational skills, as well as a thorough working knowledge of social media practices and conventions. Digital multimedia production experience is a plus, but not required. Last but not least, we’re looking for someone who is excited by the mission of making academic material relevant and accessible to the public-at-large.
Start Date: Mid-May; Application Deadline: March 15
ProPublica is seeking a research intern to support the newsroom on investigative projects. The internship is full-time, based in New York and pays $700 a week.
The intern will work closely with the Director of Research, reporters and senior editors to help with ad hoc requests while also balancing longer term research projects the intern will manage. Projects vary depending on newsroom needs, but the intern could work on tracking down former employees of a Fortune 500, calling states to get autopsy data, creating a newsroom guide for backgrounding people or finding examples of kids who were injured in a certain type of accident.
Candidates should have some experience with or a strong enthusiasm for public records, databases such as LexisNexis and Pacer and FOIA requests. An ideal candidate has a meticulous attention to detail, a passion for digging and strong reporting skills.
Additionally, the intern will have the opportunity to work with ProPublica’s Social Media team on crowdsourcing and collaborative reporting projects, assisting with callouts, reporting recipes and research/verification of user-generated content. The intern could also pitch ideas to report and write shorter pieces for our website.
Interns at ProPublica have gone on to work at The New York Times, Reuters, PBS FRONTLINE, Bloomberg, NPR, Center for Public Integrity and the Chicago Tribune.
To apply, please send an email to liz.day@propublica.org [Subject Line: “Research Intern”] with your resume and a note explaining why you’d be a good fit. Also, please describe how you’ve investigated a person, business or topic and what methods, databases or public records you used to do it. We’d love to see links to relevant work that shows your skills, as well as either a brief idea for an investigative story you’d like to research or a short description of how you would have researched a story published on ProPublica’s website.
Please also include how long you’d be able to work until, up to a year, and when you’d be available to start. No calls please.
ProPublica is committed to building a diverse workplace. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
ProPublica is seeking an intern to both report and help build community around our investigative projects with social media and engagement tools.
The internship will begin this summer. It will last a minimum of 16 weeks and can be extended for up to a year. It is full-time and based in New York. Compensation is $700 per week.
Interns will be part of our investigative team focused on quick-turn reporting that riffs off the news as well as our engagement team, which works across social networks to build communities around our coverage and develops crowdsourcing and social media strategies for our reporting. Applicants should have prior journalism experience, and a demonstrated interest in leveraging social media for newsgathering purposes.
Here are a few examples of the kind of explainers and hard-hitting pieces we do, as well as examples of our engagementefforts. Nieman Lab has also written about our approach todigital journalism, crowdsourcing and audience engagement.
Interns at ProPublica have gone on to work at The New York Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Center for Public Integrity and the Chicago Tribune.
If you would like to apply, please send an email to internships@propublica.org with your resume and a note explaining why you’d be a good fit. Also, include two clips and an explainer-type sample post. It should help guide readers through some accountability topic in the news. Here are a few examples.
Please include your clips as attachments—either Word docs or PDFs. Your application will come into the inbox of several staff members, so there is no need to address it to a specific person. Deadline for applications is March 3, 2014.
ProPublica is committed to building a diverse workplace. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
WFAE is pleased to announce Listen Here (wfaelistenhere.tumblr.com), a digital project designed to bring new listeners to public radio. Listen Here is a compilation of the public radio pieces that are most likely to draw in people who do not currently listen—the best, most interesting, most compelling public radio out there—and we want your input. We’re seeking submissions by hosts, reporters, and producers, as well as freelancers and member station staffers. We don’t want this to come across at overly self-promotional, so please submit work that is not your own. The playlist will be updated frequently beginning with the launch on Wednesday February 5th.
If you would like to participate, please send the following information to Katie Herzog at kherzog@wfae.org:
• Your name
• Your job/station/show
• A link to the piece you would play for someone who doesn’t listen to public radio but should (if you can’t find a link, the show/title is fine)
• A sentence or two about the piece and why you love it
• Links to any website/social media you want to promote
Please feel free to forward this to your colleagues and friends in public radio. The more submissions we get, the better the playlist, the more new ears.
Katie Herzog
Social Media Coordinator/Online Producer
WFAE Charlotte’s NPR News Source
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb.18, 2014
Contact: Paige Rohe, prohe@emory.edu, 404-420-5129
Applications Being Accepted for the 2014-2015 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
ATLANTA…Applications from U.S. residents are now being accepted for six one-year journalism fellowships with the Carter Center's Mental Health Program. These fellowships aim to enhance public understanding of mental health issues and reduce stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses through balanced and accurate reporting. The deadline for applications is April 14, 2014, and the fellowship recipients will be announced July 11, 2014, on the Center's website, www.cartercenter.org. The 2014-2015 fellowship year begins in September 2014.
“For nearly two decades, Carter Center fellows have accurately and sensitively covered mental health issues around the world, helping communities better understand illnesses that affect so many people,” said former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. “Too often we only hear about mental health in the news following a crisis or tragic event. Yet, every day, millions of Americans living with these illnesses go to work, care for their children, and contribute to their communities. They are valuable members of society, and their stories deserve to be told.”
Each fellow is awarded a $10,000 stipend and provided with two required expense-paid trips to The Carter Center in September 2014, and again in September 2015, to meet with program staff and advisers.
Fellows also receive access to an exclusive area within the Mental Health Media Forum (www.mentalhealthjournalism.org) to facilitate direct dialogue with current and former fellows on mental health reporting.
Since its establishment in 1996, the program has awarded nearly 150 fellowships. Throughout the history of the program, fellows have produced a considerable amount of content, including books, television mini-or full-length documentaries, hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and online pieces, hundreds of minutes of radio and television airtime, as well as creative and innovative uses of multimedia.
Shedding Light on Issues and Creating Change
Fellows are not required to leave their employment during the fellowship year and are encouraged to undertake timely projects that may educate the public and raise awareness about important mental health issues. Through their reporting, Carter Center fellows have: investigated the use of North Carolina state prisons as de facto psychiatric hospitals; inspired policymakers in a major American city to allocate millions of dollars to address homelessness; and exposed the complex and devastating mental health challenges faced by returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
On several occasions, fellowship projects have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Multiple fellowship projects have been nominated for regional Emmy Awards, and others have received the Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and American Psychiatric Association, as well as recognition from mental health consumer advocacy organizations such as Mental Health America and the National Alliance for Mental Illness.
How to Apply
The program is open to journalists working in all media forms with a minimum of three years professional experience. Projects are tailored to the experience and interests of the fellows. Fellows are not required to leave their current employment.
Unlike in previous years, the full application now must be completed and submitted online. The application for the 2014-2015 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism is available at www.cartercenter.org/mhjapplication. Interested applicants should submit the following:
– Objectives for Fellowship and Project Description: An informal essay not to exceed 1,000 words describing the applicant's professional reasons for applying and how the fellowship would benefit the applicant's body of work.
– Samples of Professional Work: Up to three examples of the applicant's work may be submitted. At least one of the samples should be in the media form proposed.
– Letters of Recommendation: Two letters of recommendation from people familiar with the applicant's work should comment on the applicant's abilities and potential as a journalist. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters online once the applicant has completed the application process, no later than April 28, 2014.
– Letter of Support: One letter from the applicant's publisher, editor, producer, manager, or director, supporting the application is required. If the applicant is self-employed, the third letter must come from an individual familiar with his or her work. This individual will be asked to submit his or her letter online once the applicant has completed the application process, no later than April 28, 2014.
All application materials must be submitted online by April 14, 2014.
Additional Resources:
Read about previous fellowship projects in our archives section:
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/archive/by_name.html
Learn about Rosalynn Carter's more than 40-year career in mental health leadership:
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/mental_health/rosalynn-carter-mental-health-leadership.html
Direct all application inquiries to:
Rebecca Palpant Shimkets, M.S.
Assistant Director
The Carter Center Mental Health Program
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307
Tel: (404) 420-5165
Email: info@mentalheatlhjournalism.org
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Let me be a bit more specific about what we’re looking for.
First, and most important, we’re looking for freelance features and articles that involve original research, analysis, or reporting — specifically those that involve statistical analysis, data mining, programming, data visualization, or other data-journalism methods. FiveThirtyEight is not the right outlet for “smart takes,” opinion pieces, or long-form essays that don’t involve some data component. We would potentially have interest in features that involve shoe-leather reporting (i.e., interviewing, first-person observation) if they are numerate as well as literate, and help our readers put data and statistics into context.
Second, we’re looking for freelancers to cover relatively specific subjects — e.g. hockey, weather, the economics of food — as opposed to generalists. A list of subjects that we know we’d be interested in is included below.
Third, as the site has not yet launched, we’re thinking ahead and looking to develop relationships with writers to produce recurring series of articles for FiveThirtyEight. As a general guide, this might mean writing anywhere from once every other month for FiveThirtyEight to once every week or two. The articles might typically be somewhere between 750 and 2,000 words in length.
Fourth, we’re looking for authors who have a track record of publishing work under their byline. This could mean at The New Yorker, in an academic journal, or at an obscure blog. But we’ll want to be able to evaluate published examples of your work and consider how it might fit into our plans.
We recognize that these requirements are strict. But as disciplined as we are in our approach toward journalism, we’re hoping to apply it to a wide range of subjects in the news and in everyday life.
The following list of potential freelance topics is not exclusive: if you want to pitch us on an epic, eight-part series on the statistics of dog breeding, we’re happy to listen. But the subjects listed below are those we’re most likely to be interested in — especially those listed with an asterisk (*).
One major focus for freelance content is our science vertical. Potential subtopics within science include but are not limited to the following:
Our lifestyle vertical is broad. We’d be interested in people who provide data-driven analysis of these topics, along with others:
Within our sports vertical, we have several writers on staff who provide coverage across multiple sports. But there are a couple of ways that we might expand upon their coverage, such as with writers who:
In politics, we have strong coverage of U.S. elections on staff, but we’d consider pitches in the following areas:
In economics, we have strong coverage of micro- and macroeconomic data on staff, but we'd be interested in someone with a strong understanding of:
These are paying assignments. We have a schedule of freelance rates that can vary depending upon the writer’s experience, the time commitment involved in preparing the features, and other factors.
If you’ve been patient enough to read to the end of this post and have an idea that you think might be a great fit for FiveThirtyEight, we’d love to hear from you. Send us a note at 538FREELANCE AT GMAIL DOT COM. Give us a specific sense of what you’d like to write about, illustrated by sample headlines or short summaries. Tell us how you can do this in a differentiating and data-rich way. Include links to articles that you’ve published elsewhere. And let us know how to reach you. We look forward to hearing from you.
Two-day storytelling workshop at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC, March 15-16. Details here and below.
Strategies for First-Person Audio StorytellingDescription (Photo credit: Biff Jennings, Shooters-at-the-Beach) |
