Please Note: Application Deadline Extended to Sept. 2
NEFAC’s Investigative Reporting Fellowships to Be Offered to 25 Reporters, Editors and Producers
Application Materials
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT Justin Silverman | 774.244.2365 | justin@nefac.org
The New England First Amendment Coalition will host its 14th annual investigative journalism institute from Oct. 20 to Oct. 22 at Northeastern University in Boston.
Named after the late trail-blazing Boston Globe journalist, the Gloria L. Negri First Amendment Institute (formerly the New England First Amendment Institute) is an intensive training program on freedom of information law and investigative reporting techniques.
The Institute is offered each year tuition-free and exclusively to 25 working New England journalists. More than 300 journalists from 100 local news organizations have benefited from the program since it began in 2011.
The deadline to apply is August 23, 2024.
Application materials can be obtained here.
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Speakers and faculty for this year’s Institute will be announced in the coming months. Previous speakers and faculty — among them multiple Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award winners — include:
Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record; Sisi Wei, editor-in-chief at The Markup; Sewell Chan of the Texas Tribune; Mark Walker of The New York Times; NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer; Tracy Jan of The Washington Post; Astead Herndon of The New York Times; Stephanie McCrummen, Margaret Sullivan and Scott Higham of The Washington Post; Terence Smith, contributing columnist for the Capital Gazette (Annapolis, Md.); David Barboza of The New York Times; Wesley Lowery, formerly of The Washington Post; The Marshall Project’s Bill Keller, formerly of The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post; ESPN’s Don Van Natta, Jr.; the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning Spotlight Team from The Boston Globe; as well as Anna Schecter, a Peabody Award winning producer for NBC; Cindy Galli of ABC News; and Bill Buzenberg, former executive director of the Center for Public Integrity.
Fellows learn the latest investigative and database reporting techniques, state-specific public records and open meeting laws, and how to best obtain documents through the federal Freedom of Information Act, among other skills.
This year’s institute is made possible by the generosity of Northeastern University, the Academy of New England Journalists, the Rhode Island Foundation and Boston University.
NEFAC was formed in 2006 to advance and protect the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment, including the principle of the public’s right to know. We’re a broad-based organization of people who believe in the power of an informed democratic society. Our members include lawyers, journalists, historians, academics and private citizens.
Our coalition is funded through contributions made by those who value the First Amendment and who strive to keep government accountable. Please make a donation here.
Leadership Circle donors include the Rhode Island Foundation, Hearst Connecticut Media Group, The Boston Globe, Paul and Ann Sagan, and the Robertson Foundation. Major Supporters include Boston University, the Academy of New England Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation, Genie Gannett for the First Amendment Museum, Linda Pizzuti Henry, the Champa Charitable Foundation Fund, Connecticut Public and GBH-Boston.