MCI Fellowship Program
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MCI Fellowship Program.

Nurtures young journalists as leaders and promotes solutions-based journalism for social change.

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What we're building.

Phase 3 of the Next-Gen Journalist Program.

The Media Challenge Fellowship is MCI's flagship year-long apprenticeship for early-career journalists. The model is the ONE-MAN-WOMAN-ARMY-JOURNALIST: multi-skilled, multi-earning, and brand-led. Fellows are placed across newsrooms ranging from NTV, NBS, and NRG to The Guardian, BBC, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera.

206
Fellows since 2018
180+
Young journalists skilled in 8 years
2–6 months
Time to first job vs 1–3 years average
$1,350–$3,000
Multi-earning income per fellow
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