The
Journey Program is an annually organized intensive summer course, which offers participants unique experience through interactive seminars conducted by professional journalists, editors and media personalities from world’s most renowned news outlets and agencies. Organized by The Bakala Foundation, Journey aims to bring together promising students of journalism and media from around the world and give them the opportunity to learn from top professionals from the field and to create a unique, inspiring experience. Participants undergo series of workshops on current trends and tools used in reporting, data collection and analysis, investigative journalism and many more aspects of modern media work as well as a number of exercises, in real newsroom conditions. The course will be taking place August 8-18, 2015.
Submitted applications will be reviewed by an independent jury and twenty fellows will be selected. They will receive full scholarships, covering all travel expenses related to their return trip to Prague including flight tickets and transport to and from the Václav Havel Airport, full board and accommodation as well as additional expenses directly related to Journey such as study materials and public transportation. The scholarship does not include insurance.
If you are a journalism or media student, please apply through the
Online Application section, which also contains the requirements applicants have to meet in order to be eligible for the program. Applications will be accepted from March 2 - April 30, 2015.
