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SPJ Fort Worth chapter offering mid-career grant

The Fort Worth SPJ chapter has a mid-career grant of up to $500 available for journalists who want some type of mid-career training.
 
The award is open to newspeople with at last five years experience and must be used on journalism-related training.  You do not have to be currently employed by a news organization to be eligible – so freelancers and laid-off people would qualify.  You do have to be specific about the training you want to receive.  You could use this for courses, workshops, even attending a convention if that convention offered a specific strand of workshops, like investigative reporting or photojournalism.
 
The application form can be found at http://www.spjfw.org/awards/mcgapp12.pdf, which also offers more information on the grant.

By Kathryn Jones Malone

Kathryn Jones Malone is co-director of the Texas Center for Community Journalism. She began her career as a staff writer at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, then worked as a staff writer for the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News; as a contract writer for The New York Times; as a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly magazine; as editor of the Glen Rose Reporter; and as a freelance writer for numerous state, regional and national magazines. She teaches journalism at Tarleton State University.