Coda Story’s 2024-25 Bruno Reporting Fellowships

Applications are now open for the 2024-25 Bruno Reporting Fellowships to fund an enterprise feature relevant to Coda Story’s topics of interest. The 2024-25 Fellowships support two 10-month reporting projects that culminate in a notable story to be published on Coda’s website and editorial partners’ websites. 

The Bruno Reporting Fellowship is designed to benefit early career journalists working in countries where journalism is under-resourced and the issues pertinent to Coda’s editorial concerns are under-scrutinized. This year, the fellowship is open to one Georgian reporter, who will contribute research and reporting on Coda’s special collaboration with Stranger’s Guide magazine. The fellowship is also open to one reporter of any nationality currently living in exile, who will work closely on the project connected to the experience of exile in the digital age. Applicants must have excellent written and spoken English and have a track record of writing reported pieces in English. 

The Fellowship offers each fellow a stipend of $1000 a month for 10 months. Pre-approved expenses will be covered separately. Throughout the fellowship, the reporter will benefit from mentorship, guidance and editorial support from Coda’s editors and staff. Our goal is to create an environment where hungry early-career journalists can learn and challenge themselves in a supportive and rigorous environment. The fellows will become a trusted part of our team and newsroom, are expected to contribute ideas, and to produce regular reporting, including at least one long-form piece.

Coda’s work is animated by the understanding that the world is being overtaken by overarching storylines rapidly coming into view that inform virtually every facet of politics, from the local to the global.  These storylines – whether the disinformation campaigns that are feeding the war on science or the new technologies strengthening growing authoritarianism – are the crises that Coda covers relentlessly and with singular focus. 

The Bruno Reporting Fellowship is sponsored by the Bruno Foundation, set up by journalist and writer Martin Walker. Walker is an acclaimed international reporter, former Guardian Moscow Correspondent and Reporter of the Year for Granada TV. Walker is celebrated for his many investigations and books, from the first biography of Gorbachev to the fraught reporting on the fall of the Shah of Iran and its political repercussions, and is a passionate supporter of urgent, dynamic journalism. He is also a historian and author of the popular Bruno detective series. Bruno’s eponymous protagonist has a distinct sense of justice, intrigue, and tenacity – traits the Bruno Fellowship celebrates. 

Applications are due by 11:59pm GMT on August 30, 2024. 

To apply for the fellowship, please send the following to [email protected]

• A cover letter introducing yourself and telling us why you deserve the fellowship and what you would like to focus on. 
• A pitch for one long-form story that you would like to work on during your fellowship and why Coda is the right platform for it. 
• Resume.
• A brief cover letter indicating why the fellowship is right for you.
• Three published clips (links or PDFs are fine).

The schedule for the 2024-25 Bruno Reporting Fellowships is as follows:

Bruno Reporting Fellowship

Applications Open: August 8, 2024 

Applications Closed: August 30, 2024 

Fellowship Begins: October 1, 2024

Fellowship Ends: July 1, 2025 

Bruno Fellows Alumni

2020-21 fellow: Alizeh Kohari (Pakistan)

2022-23 fellow: Anna-Catherine Brigida (US). Anna-Catherine’s article on surveillance technology in Honduras won the 2023 Fetisov Journalism Award

2023-24 fellow: Thiện Việt (Vietnam)

All inquiries contact [email protected]. We will do our best to answer all emailed questions but no phone calls please.

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