10 mini-fellowships for health reporting offered

California Health Journalism Fellowships at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism is seeking applications for a new mini-fellowship. The mini-fellowship would have two purposes:

"Educate California-based bloggers and online editors on ways to chronicle the health of their communities (broadly construed) and to provide individualized coaching on proven strategies to improve the health and sustainability of their blogs or websites. 

"Besides paying your travel expenses for two three-day gatherings in Los Angeles (April 28- May 1, 2011, and June 23-25, 2011), we'll provide you with a $2,000 stipend to help underwrite the reporting and publication of an ambitious community-health related project, as well as six months of technical assistance on tools and strategies you can use to build audience and promote engagement."

The fellowship program will select 10 bloggers and online editors will be selected through a competitive process.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 7.

For more information, contact Martha Shirk at Cahealth@usc.edu.