Columbia Journalism School announces the launch of a new fellowship honoring the prize-winning reporter and alumnus Tony Horwitz, and which will fund the reporting of graduates from the previous decade.
The Fellowship will support journalism that bridges divides and promotes equality and understanding. Fellows will be awarded up to $6,500 to support reporting, investigation or travel related to their reporting projects. Journalism School graduates from the previous 10 years will be eligible to apply for funding.
The Fellowship honors the late Tony Horwitz, a 1983 graduate of the Master of Science Program who won the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting in 1995 while at The Wall Street Journal and wrote more than a half dozen books, most of them with a focus on American history. Through his career Horwitz also reported for other publications, including The New Yorker, and served as an international correspondent in the Balkans, Middle East, Africa and elsewhere.
“Tony was an open-minded, open-hearted adventurer, passionately interested in others, especially those who didn't share his views,” said Horwitz’s wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks ('83 M.S.). “His reporting aimed to forge connections and level inequalities. I hope this fellowship will help young reporters continue that work; we’ve never needed it more.”
"An alumnus of Columbia Journalism School, Tony Horwitz was one of the most influential and inspiring journalists of his generation, equally gifted as a reporter and a writer,” said Steve Coll, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism at Columbia. “We are thrilled to be able to keep the spirit of his work alive through these fellowships."
Among Horwitz's books that became New York Times bestsellers were "Confederates in the Attic," "Blue Latitudes," "Baghdad Without a Map" and "A Voyage Long and Strange."
Applications to the fellowship open immediately and are due May 31, 2020. For more information and to apply, visit https://journalism.columbia.edu/horwitz-fellowship.