The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism

The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism is sponsored by McGraw Center for Business Journalism. This fellowship provides funding and editorial support to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories with a strong economic, financial, or business angle.

McGraw Fellowships: Enterprise Reporting Grants to $15K | Association of Health Care Journalists McGraw Fellowships: Enterprise Reporting Grants to $15K | Association of Health Care Journalists McGraw Fellowships: Enterprise Reporting Grants to $15K McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism Grants up to $15K for High-Impact Stories that “Follow the Money” Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism .

If you have a great idea for a high-impact health care story that “Follows the Money” but need funds to get it done, check us out.

The McGraw Fellowships, an initiative of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, provide experienced journalists with a grant up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories that delve into critical issues related to the global economy, business or finance.

Given the enormous changes in federal spending and policy priorities now taking place in Washington DC, we are particularly interested in story proposals that examine the impact of these changes. Both freelance and staff journalists in all forms of media with at least five years’ professional experience are eligible. Journalists from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

The upcoming deadline to apply is April 13, 2026 Previous McGraw Fellows have explored a wide variety of topics — and you don’t need to be a business reporter to apply. Many have been generalists, or cover beats such as health care, the environment or immigration. Others focus on inequality or corporate accountability.

Here are some examples of their work: California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields LA Times Science For Sale: How Drugmakers Captured the FDA The Lever Clean energy bans skyrocket under Trump USA Today Haitians in Ohio alter daily life, forging new abilities, as immigration chaos grinds on Haitian Times Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care.

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ProPublica How the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Pivot to Plastic is Polluting Our Planet Scientific American ‘ They Were Traumatized’: How a Private Equity-Associated Lender Helped Precipitate a Nursing Home Implosion Politico Radioactive Shadow Workers Sierra Magazine When Hospitals Sue Patients An Arm & A Leg and KFF Health News The Deadly Secrets Behind “Breakthrough” Alzheimer’s Drugs The Lever The Promise and Perils of the New Fertility Entrepreneurs New Yorker.

com Lead keeps poisoning children. It doesn’t have to. Grist For further information, go to www.

mcgrawcenter. org or contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism. cuny.

edu . We will also hold McGraw Fellowship Office Hours on Zoom to answer any questions at noon EST on Tuesday March 10 th , March 31 st and April 7 th . The McGraw Center for Business Journalism was established at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2014 by the family of the late Harold W.

McGraw, Jr., former chairman and CEO of McGraw-Hill and long-time publisher of BusinessWeek magazine. The Center is dedicated to enhancing the depth and quality of business and economic news coverage through training, student scholarships and support for veteran journalists. We accept McGraw Fellowship applications twice a year, in spring and fall.

Fall 2026 applications will be due October 12, 2026. McGraw Center for Business Journalism mcgrawcenter@journalism. cuny.

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