ProPublica: David Burnham-TRAC Data Reporting Fellowship
ProPublica is looking for a motivated early-career investigative data journalist to join our editorial team as the David Burnham-TRAC Data Reporting Fellow, specifically focused on investigating the federal bureaucracy. This is a new fellowship, meant to provide up-and-coming data journalists the opportunity to learn from some of the best data and investigative reporters in the business and to give them the space to shed light on both the inner workings of the government and impacts of federal policy.
The fellowship honors Burnham, an investigative journalist who reported on local, state and federal enforcement corruption for 50 years. He also helped found the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, TRAC, a data gathering, research and distribution organization at Syracuse University.
ProPublica’s investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we intend for it to spark real-world change. You’ll be part of ProPublica’s award-winning data team, a group of nearly a dozen journalists who use data analysis to uncover scoops, stories and deep dives.
The David Burnham-TRAC Data Reporting Fellow will report to ProPublica’s senior editor for data and news applications and work with members of our data team to produce or support at least one major deep-dive investigative project related to the federal government for each year of the fellowship.