Graduate and undergraduate students at North American colleges and universities or American students studying abroad are invited to apply for Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards. An applicant must be a college junior, senior or graduate student enrolled in a degree program at the application deadline and have demonstrated an interest in international journalism.
In a typical year, the Foundation grants 18 scholar awards for the pursuit of academic goals. Winners receive either a $3,000 scholarship for independent work or a $4,000 fellowship to be used to fund time in a bureau of a leading news organization such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal.
Our program is aimed primarily at helping students, of whatever nationality, who wish to pursue international journalism, rather than returning to their countries of origin and becoming local reporters. Our program is also heavily oriented toward helping journalists launch their careers rather than assisting midcareer professionals.
In the last 20 years, the OPC Foundation fellowships has sent nearly 150 fellows to learn their craft at 40 or so overseas bureaus run by the Associated Press, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and English-language foreign media in locations that stretch from London to Tokyo and include, among others, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Dakar, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Paris, Gdansk, Ramallah, Cairo, Amman, Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Many OPC Foundation fellows have gone on to distinguished careers at the world’s top media organizations, winning Pulitzer Prizes, OPC Awards, George Polk Awards, Emmys, Peabody Awards and Loeb Awards.
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1, 2024.
More information: OPC Foundation Scholar Awards
All applications with resume, cover letter and work samples should be emailed to foundation@opcofamerica.org.
