Journalism That Goes Deep: Applications Open for Ocean Reporting Fellowships
Application deadline 12 September 2025
Applications are now open to join the third cohort of the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN), a fellowship program that gives professional journalists the opportunity to spend up to a year working on an in-depth or investigative ocean story.
We’re looking for compelling, impactful, innovative, and well-developed story ideas or cross-border collaborations from experienced environmental journalists who can count on the close involvement of a newsroom over the course of a year. For more on what a Fellowship means for newsrooms.
We also have spaces reserved for Fellowships dedicated to investigations focused on transparency and governance. This includes uncovering the financial structures that enable environmental damage and unsustainable supply chains. Relevant ocean topics could be flags and ports of convenience; government subsidies; monitoring; control and surveillance; fishing access agreements; tax loopholes; beneficial ownership; seafood supply chains; illegal wildlife trade; and more.
We particularly welcome applications from the Global South, and we seek more reporting in particular from Asia-Pacific, east Africa, and Latin America.
Applicants can be staff or freelancers, and up to nine Fellowships are available this year. The full-time Fellowships will provide a reporter’s salary and additional reporting expenses.
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https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/journalism-goes-deep-applications-open-ocean-reporting-fellowships
