ICFJ Knight Fellowships

The ICFJ Knight Fellowships instill a culture of news innovation and experimentation worldwide. Fellows help journalists and news organizations adopt new technologies to enhance their news gathering, storytelling, editorial workflows, audience engagement and business models, among others. The result: sustainable, trustworthy journalism that serves the public interest. Learn more.

What’s more, ICFJ's unparalleled network of global media professionals multiply the reach and impact of the ICFJ Knight Fellows’ work, seeding a truly global spirit of innovation in journalism.​​​ 

Fellowships are currently filled, but if you have an innovative idea that transforms the journalism landscape in your area, please get in touch. 

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ICFJ Knight Fellowships: How Hundreds of Fellows Helped Transform Global Journalism

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December 10, 2025
Since the inception of the ICFJ Knight Fellowships in 1994, 356 fellows from 53 countries have helped strengthen journalism for communities across the world.  Working with journalists and newsrooms, they have developed tools, resources and training in everything from storytelling and audience engagement to editorial workflows and business models. They have created media outlets that continue to thrive and expand today. And they have built over a dozen transnational networks that have themselves equipped thousands of journalists to innovate and serve their own audiences.

ICFJ Knight Fellow Sannuta Raghu Says “Fidelity to Source” is Vital When Using AI

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August 1, 2025
Newsrooms globally have begun exploring ways to convert their journalism into different formats using AI: for example, from text articles to videos, podcasts, infographics and more. As they do so, the core challenge isn’t just accuracy – it’s rigor. Journalists strive to get facts right and attribute them clearly, avoid bias, verify claims, and maintain transparency. When AI is used to convert a work of journalism from one form to another, the same rigor may not carry over.

IJNet Journalist of the Month: Amr Eleraqi

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June 2, 2025
Originally from Egypt, Amr Eleraqi is a journalist, author and instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. He is the founder of the award-winning data journalism website, InfoTimes, and a former ICFJ Knight Fellow. His latest book, on Python coding skills for journalists, was released at the start of this year. Eleraqi spoke with IJNet about his start in journalism, media in both the Middle East and Canada, his new book project and more.
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The Year we Redefine our Relationship with Audiences and our Role in Society

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January 28, 2025
If you work in journalism, you might recognize that 2024 was a year of reckoning for our industry. I certainly do. 

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