FIJ is pleased to announce that the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation has again approved a donation of $25,000 to support our grants for domestic investigations. We also received a $5,000 donation that will go to a challenge grant of $25,000, given earlier this year by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. That leaves $20,000 to be raised before December ...
The Fund for Investigative Journalism organized a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Miami, on August 7 to talk about the nitty-gritty of grants for journalists. FIJ board member Lottie Joiner and Director of Operations Ana Arana answered questions from journalists about the best way to get story ideas funded. Joiner encouraged journalists at the gathering ...
The board of directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has awarded $57,000 in 10 grants to investigative journalists in its most recent round of funding. The grants will help cover the costs of reporting work, such as travel, document fees, and other out-of-pocket expenses. The grant recipients are: Peter Byrne, a Northern California-based investigative journalist and science writer, ...
At the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference, Houston, June 14. Executive Director Sandy Bergo explained to a roomful of journalists the ins and outs of applying for a Fund for Investigative Journalism grant. In the tradition set forth by founder Philip Stern, who launched FIJ in 1969, Bergo described how the Fund awards up to $10,000 to reporters to pursue ...
Angelika Albaladejo, a Fund for Investigative Journalism Diversity Fellow working with The Marshall Project, was featured in a panel at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Houston on June 13. The panel focused on how to report on people from marginalized communities. Albaladejo, who has a background in foreign policy, talked about her experience as a freelance journalist in ...
Come join us Friday, June 14, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for a brown bag lunch hosted by the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), in honor of its 50th Anniversary, at the 2019 IRE conference in Houston. FIJ will team up with the Pulitzer Center to give out tips for winning reporting grants. FIJ Executive Director Sandy Bergo and ...
Join us at The Fund for Investigative Journalism’s 50th Anniversary Dinner featuring a Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh Thursday, October 24, 2019 National Press Club 529 14th Street, NW Washington, DC We hope you will join us as we celebrate investigative journalism’s achievements over the last fifty years. Click here to purchase tickets The Fund for Investigative Journalism was ...
(On a break from the Reva & David Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting at the campus of the University of California – Berkeley.) At the conference we heard Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists describe “how the sausage is made,” that is, how reporters come up with ideas, get interviews with reluctant sources, report in war zones, verify facts, and work with editors. ...
Come join us Friday, June 14, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for a brown bag lunch hosted by the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), in honor of its 50th Anniversary, at the 2019 IRE conference in Houston. FIJ will team up with the Pulitzer Center to give out tips for winning reporting grants. FIJ Executive Director Sandy Bergo and ...
Congratulations to Eliza Griswold, who has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. She received an FIJ grant to help her reporting on the health, economic and political costs that follow in the footsteps of the American fracking boom. The Pulitzer committee called the book “A ...