NAA Minority Fellowship program

Deadline: April 30, 2008

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There is NO cost to the fellowship winner or his/her company!

There are only two weeks left to apply for no-cost fellowships through NAA's Minority Fellowship program. For 28 years, NAA has offered full-ride training and development fellowships to newspaper professionals of color in the areas of editing, business, leadership, design and production. For the second half of 2008, we are pleased to include a new list of courses and programs to help build the competencies and skills of the leaders of tomorrow.

Again we are partnering with the best media institutions in the country including Northwestern's Media Management Center, The American Press Institute,
The National Association of Minority Media Executives, The Society for News Design and The Poynter Institute.

The fellowships, offered twice a year, cover tuition, lodging, airfare, meals and other necessary expenses for each program. There is NO cost to the fellowship winner or his/her company. Applicants do not have to work at NAA member newspapers to qualify for a fellowship. While the objective of the program is to help more people of color enter or advance in newspaper management, the program also helps newspapers augment their training budget and acts as a great retention tool for their best and brightest.

NAA will offer 15 fellowships for classes taking place July - December 2008. Applications can be downloaded and completed in either MS Word or PDF formats. Please visit http://www.naa.org/diversity/minorityfellowships, to download an application. Questions, problems, contact me at 571.366.1003 or angela.winters@naa.org

Completed applications must be snail-mailed or faxed and are due April 30, 2008. This is the final date we will accept any applications, so if they are mailed, they must be sent early enough to be received by April 30^th . Applications mustinclude updated resumes and cannot be e-mailed.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: RELIGION REPORTING AWARDS

The Religion Newswriters Association invites journalists to enter its contests recognizing excellence in religion reporting in the news media. Nearly $10,000 in prizes is awarded in eight contest categories.

• Religion Reporter of the Year (Templeton)
  
• Religion Writer of the Year (Supple)
  
• Religion Pages/Sections (Schachern)
  
• Student Reporter of the Year (Chandler)
  
• Reporter of the Year at small and mid-sized newspapers (Cassels & Cornell)
  
• Television Religion Reporter of the Year
  
• Radio Religion Reporter of the Year

  Visit RNA for entry forms and more information.
  Postmark deadline: Feb. 1, 2008
  (Chandler student contest deadline is May 1, 2008).

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  Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment .

  The Grantham Prize is given for journalism on environment and natural resources produced and distributed in the United States and/or Canada between January 1 and December 31, 2007. Entries must be postmarked no later than January 14, 2008 for book entries and February 14, 2008 for all other entries, and sent to the Grantham Prize administrator at Metcalf Institute, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI 02882.

  Prize: $75,000.

  Range: 1-Jan to 31-Dec.

  Sponsor: Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.

  Contact: Sunshine Menezes; (401) 874-6499; sunshine@gso.uri.edu.

  URL: www.granthamprize.org