Interested in taking on a side job? Lisa Manfield, who works in marketing for The Tyee newspaper, mentions that her paper is offering $5,000 journalism fellowships. According to The Tyee:
The fellowships are $5000 each, and go to independent journalists wanting to report a series of articles that educate citizens about important issues in British Columbia.
Entries for this round are due Dec. 15, 2007….Winners will be announced Jan. 31, 2008. The resulting series — each one consisting of three or more articles of at least 1000 words each — will be published on The Tyee, and made available to other publications, pending approval by the authors.
If you dabble in freelance writing, you might want to check out the fellowships.