Investigative journalists from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America are invited to apply for grants to attend the 2008 Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway, in September. Conference attendees are to be selected by the end of April.

Visit the Web site for more information.

The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication is now accepting applications for the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. The fellowships are open to U.S. journalists from print, broadcast and multimedia with an interest health reporting, not just those on the health beat. Deadline is March 3.

Visit USC Annenberg's Web site for details.

The World Press Institute invites international journalists to apply for a fellowship to cover the Republican National Convention in Minnesota and travel to other cities across the United States. Application deadline is Feb. 29.  Visit WPI's Web site for details or to apply.

The Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia at the University of California-Berkeley is accepting applications for fellowships for editors and reporters to attend workshops that combine practical instruction in current and emerging technologies that impact news reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing. Application deadline is February 8.  Visit the Knight Digital Media Center Web site for details.

Applications are now being accepted for fellowships from the International Reporting Project. U.S. journalists are invited to apply for fellowships that include an individual overseas reporting project. Deadline is April 1.  Visit the IRP Web site for details or to apply.

The Society for News Design is accepting applications for its Best of Multimedia Design competition. Projects are judged on the basis of skill, innovation and high-quality visual journalism in Web and other new-media design. Deadline for entries produced Jan. 1-March 31 is April 7, and winners will be announced June 1.  Visit the SND Web site for more information.

The South Asian Journalists Association invites individual journalists and news organizations in North America to submit entries for the SAJA Journalism Awards. The awards recognize excellence in coverage of South Asia, as well as outstanding reporting by South Asian journalists in the U.S. and Canada. Deadline is March 31.  Visit the SAJA Web site for details

The World Press Institute invites international journalists to apply for a fellowship to cover the Republican National Convention in Minnesota and travel to other cities across the United States. Application deadline is Feb. 29.   Visit WPI's Web site for details or to apply.

The Center for Environmental Journalism of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder is now accepting applications for the 2008-09 Ted Scripps Fellowships, which will be awarded to full-time U.S. print or broadcast journalists who are interested in environmental issues. Deadline is March 1.  Visit the CEJ Web site for details.

Journalists can be nominated for a chance to win the Asia Society's annual Osborn Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism on Asia. Both U.S. and non-U.S. applicants are eligible. Deadline is March 14.  Visit the Asia Society Web site to learn more.

Yale University will host the 18th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference May 20-23, 2008. The program is geared toward journalists writing about information technology and policy. Journalists writing on privacy, intellectual property, telecommunications and cyberlaw are encouraged to apply for conference funding. Apply by March 31.  Visit the Web site for details.

The IWMF is accepting applications for its 2008-09 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, named for the 1998 Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in May 2003.

Gbemisola Olujobi, editor of the Living Section at The Guardian in Lagos, Nigeria and Diana Zulu, an editor at the Zambian Daily Mail in Lusaka, Zambia are the recipients of the first IWMF fellowship for international women journalists.

They began their fellowships in mid-April and will be in the United States until the end of June. Olujobi will be reporting on women’s issues at the San Francisco Chronicle and Zulu will focus on health issues at The Boston Herald. Both spoke with the IWMF about women in journalism and the state of press freedom in their countries.article: in the San Francisco Chronicle

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