O'BRIEN FELLOWSHIP IN PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM

Stated amount: 6,297,821 A stipend of $75,000 (Rs. 62,97,821.46/-) for nine months for your salary, paid to your sponsoring organization, or directly to the fellow in the case of independent journalists.

1. A residency allowance based on family requirements for fellows moving to the Milwaukee metropolitan area for the duration of the fellowship: up to $7,000 (Rs. 5,87,764.59/-) for a single, married or partnered fellow, up to $9,000 (Rs. 7,55,697.15/-) for a fellow with one child, up to $10,000 (Rs. 8,39,605.18/-) for a fellow with two children, up to $12,000 (Rs. 10,07,526.22/-) for a fellow with three or more children. Fellows submit rent receipts from the rental property owner. The allowance is paid in equal monthly installments over the course of the fellowship.
2. A moving allowance of up to $7,000 (Rs. 5,87,764.59/-). (Fellows from the Milwaukee metropolitan area are not eligible for a moving allowance.)
3. A travel and research allowance up to $9,000 (Rs. 7,55,697.15/-). This covers project-related travel as well as technology, data and document costs and equipment needs.
4. Employee benefits continue to be paid by the fellow’s employer, where applicable. Independent journalists can choose to select Marquette employee health insurance.
5. Fellows and their spouses are eligible during the fellowship for tuition remission (up to seven credits) for courses offered by Marquette University. Number of Fellowship is the subject to availability, for more please visit official website.

1. A proposal to produce a rigorous, multimedia public service journalism project with the potential to have a major impact, lead to significant reform, and investigate and explain how individuals and groups can identify creative solutions to social problems.
2. The ability to complete the project during the fellowship using Milwaukee as your primary home.
3. The ability to integrate Marquette students as part of a reporting team.
4. The capacity to ensure the greatest possible exposure for the reporting once completed.
5. An advisory committee consisting of distinguished journalists and Marquette faculty and alumni will interview candidates for 'O’Brien fellowships in Feb from a pool of finalists recommended by the College of Communication journalism faculty.
6. Following those interviews, the advisory committee will send a list of recommended fellows to the dean of the Diederich College of Communication for final review. Other Info The project proposal should address these points, in alternating Q/A format:
7. In a tight paragraph, please summarize the project and your familiarity with the topic.
8. What is the key question you are trying to answer?
9. Based on your preliminary research, what makes this a timely and important story?
10. How would your work be made available to the public and in what format(s)?
11. What steps will you take to ensure that your reporting will broadly consider how discrimination based on race, gender or identity has impacted the people and places in your story, and how such bias affects efforts to change the situation? How do you currently navigate covering issues around race and equity, and how has that changed in recent years? How will you encourage students you work with during the fellowship to pursue ideas at the intersection of race and equity?
12. The O’Brien Fellowship is centered on deeply incorporating student journalists into the projects as researchers, data analysts, reporters, writers or multimedia specialists. What roles might students play in your project, and what experiences of yours might help you guide young reporters?
13. How might your project break new ground? If other outlets have taken on the topic, explain how your work would advance the story.
14. Discuss what you would need to do to pursue the story. Is it a data or document-driven story? If so, what are the documents, what will it take to get them, etc. Is it a source driven story? If so, who are the sources? Are they cooperative? Hostile?
15. What are possible obstacles to completing the reporting, and how do you plan to address them?
16. What is the “minimum” story that would come out of your project? What is the greatest potential upside?
17. Estimate how long you would need to complete the project.