Application deadline for Jim Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship is November 9

Carleton University is now accepting applications for the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship. The fellowship awards the winning journalist a prize of $25,000 to cover travel, reporting and research expenses for an in-depth project to be completed in 2016.

The application deadline for this year’s fellowship is Monday, November 9, 2015.

The fellowship commemorates the career of distinguished journalist Jim Travers who died in March 2011. Friends and colleagues of Jim Travers established the fellowship fund to finance significant foreign reporting projects by Canadian journalists — staffers, freelancers or students — working in any medium.

Visit http://cusjc.ca/travers/ for application details.