{"id":23957,"date":"2025-09-17T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/?p=23957"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:04:12","slug":"the-open-notebook-early-career-fellowship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2025\/09\/17\/the-open-notebook-early-career-fellowship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Notebook Early-Career Fellowship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Open Notebook<\/i>\u00a0offers 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\u00a0The Open Notebook<\/i>\u00a0and become part of the\u00a0TON<\/i>\u00a0editorial team. 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. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the\u00a0Burroughs Wellcome Fund<\/a>, which has supported this program since 2013.<\/p>\n

More Details<\/a><\/h3>\n

Length:\u00a012 months (part time)
\nStart Date:\u00a0February 23, 2026
\nLocation:\u00a0Remote
\nStipend:\u00a0$6,600
\nDeadline:\u00a0October 31, 2025<\/p>\n

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The Fellowship Experience<\/h2>\n

During this remote, part-time fellowship, each fellow will pitch, report, and write articles for publication at\u00a0The Open Notebook<\/em>\u2014a mix of \u201cstory behind the story\u201d interviews and reported features. They will have weekly phone or video meetings with a mentor who is an experienced science journalist and who will help them shape story ideas, provide reporting and writing guidance, edit fellows\u2019 article drafts, and offer general craft and career-development advice and guidance.<\/p>\n

Fellows and mentors also take part in a Slack discussion group composed of other current and former fellowship participants and TON editors. During the fellowship, fellows will participate in cohort-based activities in the fellowship Slack community. Membership in this community will continue after the fellowship ends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Eligibility<\/h2>\n
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  • The fellowship is open to early-career science journalists.\n
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    • If you live outside the U.S., you are welcome to apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Some training and\/or experience in writing for the general public is a requirement for this fellowship.\n
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      • You do not need to have extensive experience or training, but you do need to have some.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Science journalists (or aspiring science journalists) must have fewer than three years of regular professional science writing experience.\n
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        • Internships and student work do not count toward the fewer-than-three-years requirement.<\/li>\n
        • 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\u00a0some or all of that experience is not in English<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • Applications, including writing samples and letters of recommendation, must be in English.\n
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          • Materials translated into English from another language are acceptable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            The Open Notebook\u00a0offers 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\u00a0The Open Notebook\u00a0and become part of the\u00a0TON\u00a0editorial team. This one-year program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":23958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-23957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-career-options-science-journalism"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-17-at-9.03.37%E2%80%AFPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23959,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23957\/revisions\/23959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}