Applications are now open for the 2026 Open Notebook (TON) Early-Career Fellowship Program. The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. During the course of this fellowship, fellows work with a mentor to plan, report, and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook and become part of the TON editorial team.
WORTH
- The fellowship offers a $4000 stipend
- This one-year program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to sharpen their skills as part of a talented, supportive, diverse community of past and present fellows and mentors.
ELIGIBILITY
- The fellowship is open to early-career science journalists.
- If you live outside the U.S., you are welcome to apply.
- Some training and/or experience in writing for the general public is a requirement for this fellowship.
- You do not need to have extensive experience or training, but you do need to have some.
- Science journalists (or aspiring science journalists) must have fewer than three years of regular professional science writing experience.
- Internships and student work do not count toward the fewer-than-three-years requirement.
- Exceptions to this requirement may also be made for cases in which an applicant has more than three years of professional science writing experience but some or all of that experience is not in English.
- Applications, including writing samples and letters of recommendation, must be in English.
- Materials translated into English from another language are acceptable.
DEADLINE: October 31, 2025
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