Media Fellowships

2011 Western Media Fellow Jeremy Miller, right, visiting the David Rumsey map archive in San Francisco.

Our Western Journalism and Media Fellowships provide opportunities for journalists working in all kinds of media — newspapers, magazines, radio, television, online, multimedia, video, film, data visualization, mapping, and books — to visit Stanford and interact with researchers, scholars, and students, while developing or working on a project of their own designs to spur new coverage and understanding of the American West.

The length of residence varies, typically from one to two weeks, although longer stays may be possible, particularly for projects that intersect with ongoing research at the Center and Stanford, that address significant challenges facing the American West, and that explore promising new possibilities for journalism and the media in the region. Travel and accommodation costs are covered, and a modest honorarium is offered.

Applying
Short letters of inquiry — one to two pages — are welcome. Please address inquiries electronically to:

Geoff McGhee (geoff.mcghee@stanford.edu)
Creative Director for Media and Communications

• Current and Past Fellows
• Gallery of Works

Current and Past Media Fellows

2014

Elizabeth Zach, Rural Community Assistance Corporation and High Country News
Martín Quiroga, OpenFilter
Mary Ellen Hannibal, science writer

2013

Mitch Tobin, EcoWest
Lauren Sommer, KQED Science

2012

Kate Galbraith, The Texas Tribune
Tony Gleaton, photographer
Lauren Sommer, KQED Quest
Mitch Tobin, EcoWest.org

2011

Jeremy Miller, Harper’s Magazine
John Fleck, Albuquerque Journal
Lisa Hamilton, Real Rural

2009-2010

Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times
John Daley, KSL-TV

2008-2009

Timothy Egan, The New York Times
Peter Friederici, High Country News
Jesse Hardman, National Public Radio
Judy Pasternak,  The Los Angeles Times
Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler

2007-2008

Cristopher Grosskurth, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Steven G. Johnson, Veriscope Productions
Guillermo Lopez Portillo, Televisa
Ruben Moreno, La Opinion

2006-2007

Matt Jenkins, High Country News
Gabriela Olivares Torres, Zeta Magazine
Kat Snow, KQED
Ray Ring, High Country News