Ochberg Fellowship Guidelines
Applications for the 2012 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship program will be accepted beginning in the spring of 2012. Check back at that time for the online application form.
The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship is a unique seminar program for mid-career journalists who want to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and improve coverage of violence, conflict and tragedy.
Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events — on street crime and family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide — is a great challenge. Each year, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, selects six to ten journalists as Dart Center Ochberg Fellows.
Fellows attend an intensive weeklong seminar program, including briefings by leading interdisciplinary experts in the trauma field and discussions with journalist colleagues, and attend the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
The fellowship was established in 1999 by the Dart Center in partnership with the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The fellowship is named in honor of psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, M.D., a pioneer in trauma study.
The fellowship covers all travel and ground expenses while attending the program.
WHO CAN BE A FELLOW
The Ochberg Fellowship program welcomes outstanding mid-career journalists in all media. Past fellows have ranged from small-town and regional beat reporters to war photographers and foreign correspondents for international news organizations.
Fellowships are open to print, broadcast and online reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years’ full-time journalism experience.
Fellowships are limited to journalists from the Americas, Europe and Australasia, at present the major zones of Dart Center activity. All fellowship seminars are conducted in English.
Read testimonials from and bios of past Ochberg Fellows. Please direct any questions to Kate Black, associate director for programs at the Dart Center.