WINNIPEG – Applications are now open for the inaugural Aboriginal Investigative Journalism Fellowship, a new initiative aimed at improving the skills of Indigenous journalists.
Unveiled earlier this year by the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the fellowship is open to any journalist of a First Nations, Inuit or Métis background who is able to work in Canada and has a minimum of three years' professional experience working in a media outlet or as a freelancer.
It will provide a 12-week, paid placement with APTN in Winnipeg in the late-winter or spring of 2017, and the recipient will produce a full-length piece of original, investigative journalism that will air on APTN Investigates plus screen at the #CAJ17 conference banquet in Ottawa.
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on September 18, 2016 – see instructions on either the APTN or CAJ websites.
