Fellowship Opens With YES! Magazine

An experienced Journalist with deep knowledge in community underrepresented by traditional media is needed for a one year fellowship with YES! Magazine based in its office in Bainbridge Island, Washington, near Seattle.

According to information on the media firm website, the fellow will research, report and write articles for the magazine's website and print magazine. Candidates must be deeply committed to uncovering and reporting on progressive solutions for a better world.

Talking about its 2016 SurdnaReporting Fellow, the firm said: "YES! Magazine seeks a journalist for a one-year, full-time, in-house reporting fellowship based in our Bainbridge Island, Washington, office, near Seattle. The fellow will receive a salary of $40,000, plus vacation, commuting, and health benefits. YES! established this fellowship to support journalists from communities of color and to increase the diversity of voices and perspectives in our social justice reporting and writing.

"YES! Magazine is an award-winning, national, nonprofit media organization. Our print publication reaches 60,000 people each quarter. Online we reach nearly 1 million readers every month. Our editorial mission is to support social change by investigating potential solutions to social problems through reporting, analysis, and compelling writing. While we try to avoid articles that merely describe social problems, we ask hard questions about the solutions we cover and do our best to investigate how well they're working.

"The fellowship offers the opportunity to work with experienced writers, editors, and designers to create incisive articles about solution-based responses to the news of the day and to pursue in-depth reporting projects. The fellow’s reporting will land in any of our major content areas: economic inequality, racial justice, new economy finance and business, food and health justice, climate change and environmental justice, and social justice in popular culture.

"The fellow will research, report, and write articles for our website and print magazine. Online, the fellow will contribute a mix of long and short pieces, with the emphasis on substantial, reported features. In print, the fellow will contribute one article to each quarterly issue. We’re looking for thoughtfulness and impact more than daily turnarounds. We expect to see one shorter piece (500-1,000 words) per week, one to two substantial, reported pieces (1,500-3,000 words) per month; and three to four high-investment, long-form pieces over the year."

Application deadline is June 13. For more information, click here