The FRONTLINE/World Fellowship program is designed to nurture new voices in international reporting and widen the spectrum of stories available to the public, using this award-winning PBS Web site as a publishing platform for outstanding work from a new generation of journalists. The program was launched as a collaboration between FRONTLINE/World and the U.C. Berkeley graduate school of journalism. Columbia University is now a partner, and the program will continue to expand to include other leading journalism schools.

A limited number of fellowships will be awarded to current students and recent graduates of leading journalism schools who show exceptional promise and propose detailed plans to report on an international story not currently covered in the mainstream media. Journalism schools that agree to participate in the program will be responsible for recommending candidates for the program. Applications from individuals cannot be considered.

The Fellows program is designed to encourage curiosity and creative thinking about the world, foster personal narrative and journalistic voice, and reward intelligent, genuinely innovative work. All FRONTLINE/World Fellow stories will receive the same hands-on mentoring and stringent editorial scrutiny as do stories currently published on the FRONTLINE/World Web site or broadcast on the FRONTLINE/World television series.

Stories that are uniquely suited to the interactive nature of the web medium are highly encouraged.

The program is supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For more information on the program, contact: frontlineworld@flworld.org