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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Charleston Tragedy Touches Former ICFJ Knight Fellow

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June 25, 2015

The author is a former ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow who taught newswriting and copyediting to young reporters at the Independent Newspapers Group in South Africa in 1997. He is also a former New York Daily News columnist.

This post originally appeared in the Daily News and is republished with permission.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Media Innovation Bootcamps, Water Piracy in Pakistan

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June 22, 2015

Each week as part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field.

Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

Encryption: An Important Protection for Content and Communications

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June 19, 2015

“Encrypt everything, including guacamole recipes.”

This advice was tweeted by Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based organization committed to the defense of privacy and Internet freedom.

ICFJ Knight Fellow Stephen Abbott Pugh on Access to Information, New Technology

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June 19, 2015

Last week, ICFJ and the Code for Africa team announced that Stephen Abbott Pugh would join the joint project as the newest Knight International Journalism Fellow.

Originally from the United Kingdom, Abbott Pugh moved to Rwanda in 2014 where he saw an opportunity to make a difference, launching an information access website for ordinary citizens to request government documents.

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