Environmental Reporting Fellowships (2001-2006)

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The Environmental Reporting Fellowships provided support to attend the Annual Workshop for Journalists; four weeks of independent study at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography with science faculty mentorship; and a $28,000 stipend for 37 weeks to work as a reporter with a mentor at either a National Public Radio-member station or The Providence Journal, covering environment and some general assignment news. The fellowships did not include compensation for travel.

Applicants were required to have a minimum of two years' journalism experience, be a U.S. citizen, and could include science writers or reporters from any media.

Brandie Jefferson, a former intern at The Providence Journal, and Ayana Meade, an independent television producer, were awarded Metcalf Institute Environmental Reporting Fellowships for 2005-06. These reporters attended the Seventh Annual Workshop for Journalists and Ayana is now reporting at NPR-member station, WBUR, in Boston; Brandy completed her fellowship at The Providence Journal in mid-January 2006.