John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists

International Fellows

The Knight Fellowships is currently revising its selection process to reflect a new emphasis on journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership, including an emphasis on developing and strengthening press freedoms around the world. Details will be available in October 2008. Application deadlines will remain the same.

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International application deadline is Dec. 15.
Winners will be notified in early May.

Eligibility and Selection

Between six and eight fellowships are offered each year to professional journalists from news organizations outside the United States.

International Fellows are chosen by the same rigorous standards as the U.S. Fellows, and all academic features of the fellowship program are identical.

International Fellows, however, are financed separately by grants from a variety of sources, including the Fulbright program, the Knight Foundation, the Shin-young Journalism Fund, the Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Journalism Fellowship Fund and the Yahoo! International Journalism Fund.

In addition, the selection of International Fellows is designed to ensure that journalists from a wide range of countries and regions are represented.

The Knight Fellowships program reserves one fellowship each year for journalists from Latin America under special funding from the Knight Foundation. The program also reserves one fellowship each year, using special funding from Yahoo!, for a journalist from country where there are restrictions on freedom of the press, either by governmental agencies or other forces.

Rules regarding eligibility, selection procedures, and application deadlines vary somewhat, depending on the sponsors. But, in general, international applicants must have five years of professional experience.

International Fellows, like U.S. fellows, agree to spend the academic terms in residence at Stanford, to participate in the seminars and activities of the fellowship program, to do no professional work during their fellowship year, and to return to their news organization at the end of the fellowship.

Stipends for International Fellows vary according to sponsor, but are a minimum of $60,000 plus Stanford tuition and supplements for housing, child care, health insurance, books, moving and research/equipment expenses.

Applicants must be fluent in written and spoken English. All materials submitted must be in English. If samples of the applicant's work are in another language, English translations must be provided.

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