New £15k fellowship for long-form public interest journalism
A new fellowship will support one non-fiction writer each year to produce independent investigative journalism on issues of public relevance
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A new scheme will award £15,000 each year for the next five years to support a single non-fiction journalist writing a major piece of independent, long-form, public interest journalism.
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing & Journalism (OICPJ) launches The David McClure Public Interest Journalism Fellowship next year, in a bid to address the ongoing challenge of funding public interest journalism as outlined in the 2019 Cairncross Review.
Recipients will also share their investigative methods and best practices with OICPJ media students, helping to train the next generation of journalists. More information is available on the website.
It honours the legacy of the late David McClure, a respected investigative journalist known for his work on institutional privilege and royal finances, resulting in two widely covered books: 'Royal Legacy: How the royal family have made, spent and passed on their wealth’ (2014) and ‘The Queen's True Worth: Unravelling the public & private finances of Queen Elizabeth II’ (2020)
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Jacob Granger is the community editor of JournalismUK