New Texas Tribune fellowship to support HBCU students

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The Texas Tribune produces explanatory, investigative and watchdog reporting in support of democracy. We search to maintain occasions the place public officers and newsmakers reply for what they’ve or haven’t completed and for his or her use of the general public’s cash. We construct interactive internet instruments that assist our readers to be extra knowledgeable and engaged in their very own governance. And as we cost full steam forward on reaching these objectives, we notice that how we get there issues.

Among the questions we ask ourselves: Are we shining a highlight in areas that want it most? Which voices ought to we hear extra from locally and inside our group? As we work towards reaching our objectives, who’re we lifting up alongside the way in which?

As a part of our reply to the final query, the Tribune is launching a fellowship to deepen relationships and recruiting at traditionally Black faculties and universities. The effort honors our organizational dedication to replicate the demographics of the state of Texas, and honors the custom of HBCUs of nurturing a few of the strongest and influential journalists in our nation’s historical past. Their ranks embody Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who in her protection of lynching pioneered investigative journalism strategies nonetheless in use in the present day.

Thanks to the support of donor Martin Taylor, the Tribune is dedicating a fellowship place in every spring, summer time and fall semester for an HBCU pupil. Eligible candidates are undergraduate or graduate students from any Texas HBCU and Texas highschool graduates attending any HBCU throughout the U.S.

We’re in search of fellows who need hands-on expertise in all points of a contemporary news group, together with copy modifying, knowledge visuals, engagement, engineering, occasions, advertising and marketing and communications, multimedia, images, and reporting in Texas and Washington, D.C.

The window to apply for our 2023 spring and summer fellowships is open through Sunday, Oct. 30. Interested candidates might apply for a couple of fellowship and will apply for each spring and summer time. Tribune fellows are paid $6,000 a semester.

Spring fellows have to be enrolled in class for the spring semester; summer time fellows might be current graduates. Most fellows will work from Central Texas, however we’re trying to fill a reporting place with a candidate within the D.C. space and can contemplate design and engineering candidates who would work remotely.

Click here for more information about applying for Texas Tribune fellowships.

Tribune fellows every obtain a mentor, in addition to skilled improvement in a wide range of areas, resembling Texas politics, investigative reporting and viewers engagement. Our fellows produce groundbreaking journalism on numerous subjects, together with the pandemic and the Texas Legislature. They additionally plan occasions, just like the annual Texas Tribune Festival, and support the product, engineering and design efforts that make our digital newsroom attainable. See some of our fellows’ amazing work here.

The Texas Tribune is on the nexus of digital-first journalism and nonprofit public-interest journalism. We’re a spot the place staff work facet by facet to produce game-changing work and the place rising expertise — possibly the subsequent Ida B. Wells-Barnett — can hone their craft.