New application round opens
Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors (FIRE) is pleased to announce a new round of applications for FIRE’s Virtual Newsroom, which provides unaffiliated reporters with newsroom services and associated grants of up to $10,000.
The application deadline is Thursday, May 31, 2018. Revised criteria and application details are at Guidelines and Application, at our new website, firenewsroom.org (in January, Project Word changed its name to FIRE).
FIRE supports freelance investigative reporters working on stories in the public interest. We’ll soon update you on a number of FIRE-supported stories, including one that earned its reporters Spotlight Fellowships at the Boston Globe, where, in partnership with ProPublica, the story is due out in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile:
- To strengthen its delivery of services to individual reporters, FIRE is now seeking a part-time Investigative Editor.
- In June, at the annual Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, we will be launching the Investigative Freelancers Initiative—an ambitious new program to facilitate high-level solutions to the toughest problems in the freelance investigative reporting field.
- In March, 2018, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation awarded FIRE a $170,000 grant over two years—for both the individual reporting services and sector-wide solutions.
We are grateful to the foundation. With their help, and with the help of our growing circle of generous supporters, FIRE can continue to strengthen this crucial sector of public-interest reporting, which in turn strengthens the democracy that we care about—and are honored to serve.