Learn about the Reuters Institute Journalist Fellowship Program

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The Reuters Institute Journalist Fellowship Program is one of the world's leading programs for practicing and mid-career journalists to take time off from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. Most of its journalist fellows are fully funded and receive a stipend to cover living and travel costs.

The Fellowships

Through personal research, seminars, networking events and discussions with peers, the fellow will expand their understanding of journalism, the news industry, and their place in it. While at Oxford, you will work on a project that will have a direct impact for your career, your newsroom, and the media industry at large, bringing what you learn during your time on the fellowship. This is a program for working journalists and editors who will return to journalism after spending a few months at the Reuters Institute at OXFORD University.

Francisca Skoknic, Lenka Franulic 2021 awardee, is one of the current Reuters Institute Fellows..

Francisca is the editor and co-creator of LaBot, a journalism platform that includes a news chatbot, newsletter and investigative reporting medium. She is a former director of the journalism school at Universidad Diego Portales and was previously deputy director of CIPER, Chile's center for investigative journalism. Before joining CIPER she worked for several publications in Chile covering political, economic and social issues.

Skoknic has received the Excellence in Journalism Award three times (2008, 2018 and 2021). In 2021, she also received the Lenka Franulic Award, given by the National Association of Women Journalists of Chile, which recognizes the professional trajectory of women journalists. She is part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) network.

She studied journalism at the Catholic University of Chile and holds a master's degree in public administration from Columbia University, where she focused on economic and political development and specialized in international media.

Project topic: Examining the transparency of media financing: from application to outcome.