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Company:	John Jay College -- The Center on Media, Crime and Justice
Position:	Seeking Journalists for Two-Day Fellowship in NYC
Location:	New York, New York
Job Status:	Not Specified
Salary:	Not Specified
Ad Expires:	January 12, 2010
Job ID:	1119209

Description:
Call for Fellowships for the 5th Annual Harry F. Guggenheim /Center on Media, Crime and Justice Conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Sixteen prestigious journalism fellowships will be awarded to working journalists to attend this two-day conference February 1st and 2nd 2010 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

We are seeking applications from writing or broadcasting journalists in a variety of beats (education, politics, health, crime, courts, etc.) to submit project/research ideas based on the major theme of the upcoming conference: Criminal Justice Reform: What Works? What Doesn't? What Don't We Know? The topics could include: crime & punishment (sentencing; prisons); science & crime (forensic issues, etc.), issues linking crime with environment, the economy, urban affairs or education trends; race and criminal justice; juvenile justice; homeland security and civil liberties; courts; new crime prevention and policing strategies, etc.

Applications should focus on the intersection of reporters' assigned beats with criminal justice, and be related to work in progress or proposed work slated for publication. The project should be supported by a senior editor, with a letter attesting to their commitment. Freelancers are encouraged to apply. Their work will be published on www.thecrimereport.org, a criminal justice news service published by Center on Media, Crime and Justice and Criminal Justice Journalists.

Fellows will be required to attend both days of the conference in its entirety. Fellows from outside the New York area will be an awarded an all expense-paid trip to NYC for three days. In lieu of travel expenses, New York-region journalists will be awarded a $500 stipend to be used towards their proposed news projects. Meals and local travel will be provided for all Fellows for the duration of the symposium.

Applications should include:

1) A 150-word biography

2) A 300-word project pitch

3) A supporting letter from editor

Apply Online

www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj

Deadline

11:59 P.M. Dec. 16, 2009

Journalists can access applications, contest rules and contact information at www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj

Fellowships will be announced Jan. 4th , 2010.

Questions?

Please contact Deputy Director Cara Tabachnick at

212-484-1175 or ctabachnick@jjay.cuny.edu

About Center on Media, Crime and Justice

The Center on Media, Crime and Justice, housed at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) since 2006, is the nation's only practice- and research-oriented think tank devoted to encouraging and developing high-quality reporting on criminal justice, and to promoting better-informed public debate on the complex 21st-century challenges of law enforcement, public security and justice in a globalized urban society. For more information, visit http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj

About The H.F. Guggenheim Foundation

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. For more information, visit http://www.hfg.org.