Grants up to $15K for High-Impact Health Care Stories that “Follow the Money”
Applications are now open for the Spring 2025 McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. The Fellowships provide experienced journalists with a grant up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories with a strong economic or financial angle.
Given the enormous changes in federal spending and policy priorities now taking place in Washington DC, we are particularly interested for this round of Fellowships in story proposals that examine the impact of these changes. Both freelance and staff journalists in all forms of media with at least five years’ professional experience are eligible. Journalists from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
The upcoming deadline to apply is April 14, 2024
Previous McGraw Fellows have explored a wide variety of topics — and you don’t need to be a business reporter to apply. Many have focused on health care issues. Others have been generalists, or follow beats such as the environment, workplace or corporate accountability. Here are some examples of their work:
- The Deadly Secrets Behind “Breakthrough” Alzheimer’s Drugs The Lever
- ‘They Were Traumatized’: How a Private Equity-Associated Lender Helped Precipitate a Nursing Home Implosion Politico
- New York Regulators Found High Levels of TCE in Kindra Bell’s Ithaca Home. They Told Her Not to Worry Inside Climate News
- California cuts back on safety enforcement as farm workers toil in extreme heat Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main
- Across America clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built USA Today
- When Hospitals Sue Patients An Arm & A Leg and KFF Health News
- The Dirty Secrets of the Global North’s Old Clothes New Lines Magazine
- The Promise and Perils of the New Fertility Entrepreneurs NewYorker.com
- The Revolution that Died on Its Way to Dinner New York Times
- Black Farmers and Ranchers: It’s a Dying Deal Center for Public Integrity
- Plant burgers are way better for the planet than beef. Are they sustainable? Vox.com
- Lead keeps poisoning children. It doesn’t have to. Grist
If you’d like to join them, you’ll find more information, an FAQ, and the application at www.mcgrawcenter.org If you have further questions, please contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu or join us on Zoom for McGraw Fellowship Office Hours every Tuesday from 3/4/25 to 4/8/25 at 12-1 pm ET. We accept applications twice a year, in fall and spring. Fall 2025 applications will be due October 13, 2025.
The McGraw Center for Business Journalism was established at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2014 by the family of the late Harold W. McGraw, Jr., former chairman and CEO of McGraw-Hill and long-time publisher of BusinessWeek magazine. The Center is dedicated to enhancing the depth and quality of business and economic news coverage through training, student scholarships and support for veteran journalists.
The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in midtown Manhattan is the only publicly supported graduate journalism school in the Northeast. Led by Dean Graciela Mochkofsky, the School offers 16-month Master’s degree programs in Journalism and in Spanish Language Journalism.
CONTACT:
Jane Sasseen
Executive Director
McGraw Center for Business Journalism
mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu