Fellowship on International Multimedia Journalism

Today, India’s media landscape needs quality journalism from underrepresented populations covering unreported and under reported perspectives affecting their communities.

CSAS’s six-month fully funded fellowship on International Multimedia Journalism is designed to address this issue and equip early-career journalists from India’s minority and marginalized communities with the technical tools and critical thinking skills to create and distribute professional multimedia stories grounded in the principles of ethical journalism.

Through online and offline coursework, fellows will develop a strong sense of news literacy and the skills to tell compelling stories across various media—text, audio, video, photography, graphics—and use social media and other digital platforms to reach domestic and international audiences. Throughout the six months, fellows will develop a portfolio of works and the opportunity to publish their stories on national and international news organization as well.

Over six months, the early-career journalists will understand the fundamentals of journalism in the 21st century from a theoretical, practical, and economic sense. They will also develop the technical critical thinking skills necessary to produce professional multimedia stories.

In addition to teaching competency with professional tools like DSLR cameras and handheld audio recorders, the fellowship will also emphasize the importance of mobile journalism in today’s landscape. Fellows will learn to use familiar tools like their cell phones and social media as powerful storytelling devices.