Knight Science Journalism Fellowship
Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT Cambridge, United States · open to applicants worldwide
Academic-year fellowship at MIT for ten science journalists worldwide to study, attend seminars and deepen their reporting on science, health, technology and environment.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: 9.5 months at MIT; seminars and coursework; journalist cohort.
Who can apply: Science journalists anywhere with at least three consecutive years covering science, health, technology or the environment.
Free to apply.
Annual cohort of ten fellows.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: essays, work samples, references, cv.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Fellows spend 9.5 months at MIT.”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers, licensed professionals
- Science journalists anywhere with at least three consecutive years covering science, health, technology or the environment.
What you will need
- Personal statement / SOPOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
- Recommendation letters (drafts for your referees)Upload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT without your tap.
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