Do you – or a reporter you know – have a great idea for a high-impact health care story that “Follows the Money,” but few resources to get it done? If so, check out the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

The National Institute for Health Care Management is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 cycle of the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Journalism Grant program. National and local news outlets, freelance reporters, non-profit media outlets, and organizations that educate journalists are invited to apply now. 

A fellowship for supporting big reporting projects

The AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance is a yearlong program allowing journalists to pursue a significant reporting project related to the U.S. health care system. It can be local, regional or national in scope, or a mix. Although not an exclusive requirement of your project proposal, this year’s review committee remains interested in projects focused on health equity. This might include racial disparities within a community, gaps in public health inclusion, unstable housing, insurance access, food insecurity, violence as a health issue, how health care institutions or systems are applying a racial equity lens to their policies and practices or otherwise addressing inequities or disparities, or other examinations of systemic problems.

Fellows pursue the projects with the support of their newsrooms or arranged outlets, which commit to publish or air the work.

A fellowship focused on comparing U.S. health care system to others

The AHCJ International Health Study Fellowship is a six-month program supporting veteran U.S.-based health care journalists who want to pursue a story or project comparing a facet of the U.S. health care system to that of another country. 

Applications for this fellowship are closed. Check back for announcements and updates.

A fellowship for health care journalists at the CDC

AHCJ offers this in-person training for journalists in Atlanta on the CDC campus once each year.

Applications are closed. Check back for information and announcements about applying.

AHCJ provides financial assistance to a limited number of journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference. Fellowships are open to full-time Texas print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

AHCJ, with support from The Joyce Foundation, provides financial assistance to journalists to attend AHCJ's annual conference and receive one year of membership. Fellowships are open to full-time print, broadcast and online journalists in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

We especially encourage applications from crime and courts reporters — and health care reporters — who want to cover gun violence as a public health issue, as well as editors and producers responsible for shaping newsroom coverage. Selected fellows will be required to attend conference sessions related to gun violence and write short posts for AHCJ’s website about session key takeaways.

A development program for early-career journalists

The National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships program is a unique collaboration of three leading journalism groups dedicated to ensuring the future of specialty journalism.

AHCJ has joined forces with the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and the Society of Environmental Journalists to create this fellowship aimed at early-career journalists interested in careers reporting on science, health, and environmental issues.

Through the use of repatriated international royalties from its membership in the Authors Coalition of America, AHCJ is able to provide assistance this year to freelance journalists wishing to attend AHCJ’s annual conference.

Scholarships are open to freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

AHCJ, with the support of the California Health Care Foundation, provides financial assistance to journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time California print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

AHCJ provides financial assistance to journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time Missouri print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism. The student fellowships are open to full-time college or university students studying journalism or mass communication in Missouri.

AHCJ, with support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, provides financial assistance to journalists who work at one of the nation's ethnic media outlets who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time journalists who work at one of the nation's ethnic media outlets – print, broadcast or online. Ethnic media is defined here as serving a predominantly minority or ethnic audience.

AHCJ provides financial assistance to a limited number of journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time New York print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

Need financial assistance to attend the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists?

With support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, this fellowship is intended for reporters and editors working in rural towns and counties or who work for outlets serving a predominately rural population. (Generally, this includes counties with populations below 100,000.) 

AHCJ, with support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, provides financial assistance to college journalism students and college journalism instructors who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to U.S.-based students majoring in journalism or mass communication with a special interest in covering health or health care. Professors and other college instructors who are teaching health-related journalism are also welcome to apply.

Need financial assistance to attend the national conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists?

Thanks to the Rhode Island Foundation's generous support, AHCJ will be able to provide professional journalists with some support to attend the conference.