Early career journalists— apply for the 2025 Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) Health Journalism Fellowship! This unique opportunity includes a $4,000 stipend, workshops, mentoring and more! The fellowship is open to women and individuals who identify as women with 2-7 years’ professional journalism experience.

Colorado Sun reporter and past president of the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) ejected from the Colorado Republican Party state assembly for past coverage deemed “very unfair” by party leaders

The JAWS board appointed Sylvia Snowden, reporter, anchor and producer at WGN Chicago, to fill its vacant seat.

Join us Sept. 13-15 in New Orleans for this year’s Conference & Mentoring Program.

A coalition of diverse journalists is organizing a 2024 Presidential Candidate Forum hosted by the George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs in September.

Based on the site selection committee’s recommendation, the JAWS board is thrilled to share that the 2024 Conference & Mentoring Project (CAMP) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana! ⚜️

The goal of the fellowship is to train more journalists in health reporting and help diversify the reporting pool for better and more inclusive reporting on health issues across the nation. Each fellow will spend the next seven months working on a substantive reporting project.

It was 1992. I’d met journalism trailblazer Nancy Woodhull at a conference somewhere – and she urged me to come to JAWS CAMP. (My first reaction was: I ain’t going out in the woods in Montana to integrate the entire state!) And yet I found myself in Montana, hanging out with legends like Nan Robertson and Betsy Wade. At one point, Nancy Woodhull turned to me and asked: “What do you think, Rachel?” That shifted something in me. Women of that caliber were addressing me as a colleague and a peer.

You know JAWS has an ambitious (and necessary!) goal of raising $30,000 by year’s end. You’ve already given more than $14,000 to get us there. As your treasurer, deeply involved in our financial sustainability, I am thrilled to announce that a generous anonymous donor has offered to match the next $5,000 that come in. That doubles every dollar you give!