*Remote* 1 Year 19th News Fellowship for HBCU Grads & 2 Year+ Attendees (Reporting, Audience, or Product)

The Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship allows fellows to spend a year working remotely in reporting, audience, and product or technology roles with full-time salaries and benefits. Fellows can be recent HBCU graduates, mid-career alums or folks who attended for at least two years, but may not have graduated. 

Key fellowship highlights:

• $70,000-$75,000 salary
• Great benefits like generous time-off 
• Fully remote with travel opportunities
• On-the-job training
• 1:1 mentorship and professional development 
• Career coaching for their next step

Fellows in the reporting track should expect to gain more experience in:

• Covering issues deeply through original reporting, researched context and nuanced framing
• Pitching stories they want to follow through the lens of equity and representation
• Identifying and developing areas of expertise within their reporting
• Exploring storytelling across digital platforms and in-person events
• Centering the voices and experiences of people on the margins, who are often affected the most at the intersections of gender and policy

Fellows in the audience engagement track should expect to gain more experience in:

• Finding, pitching, producing and reporting out audience-centric stories that live first and foremost on off-platform channels like Instagram. For example, our callout for Black country music fans, or our roundup of Women’s History Month quotes from our current fellow cohort
• Optimizing and distributing journalism across platforms — such as on our site, via search, on social and in newsletters — to meet different audiences where they are
• Crafting accurate, compelling headlines, social and newsletter copy, and visuals on deadline
• Working with different roles across editorial, audio, event and product teams to execute on audience engagement projects
• Using key newsroom platforms and tools to draft and schedule social media posts, update our homepage, monitor real-time metrics and trending topics, and produce an article or newsletter

Fellows in the product and technology track should expect to gain more experience in:

• A specific engineering focus, building on existing skills in PHP and/or WordPress development, front-end engineering in HTML, CSS and JavaScript or data science quantitative analysis
• Testing product feasibility, writing technical requirements and estimating timelines
• Collaborating with engineers, product designers, researchers and managers to build, test and launch new features for products, like our website, republishing tools, apps like Apple News, and revenue and audience databases. For example, our current fellow built analytics dashboards for staff.
• Communicating about technical progress, roadblocks and tradeoffs in a way that is understandable for non-technical stakeholders
• Making technical decisions based on factors like ethics, security, performance and accessibility