Application  
If you are interested in our 2009 Fellowship please e-mail neainst@usc.edu requesting to be added to our mailing list for further updates.  The 2009 application is not yet available. 

Deadline 
TBD

Requirements for Eligibility

• Participants will be expected to have at least two years of professional journalism experience.
• The seminars are NOT intended for entry-level journalists, students or journalism educators.
• Candidates must be critics, reporters or editors for a newspaper, magazine, journal, broadcast media or New Media organization.
• Advanced degrees or specialized training in the arts are NOT required.
• Freelancers with a significant body of work are eligible, if their application is accompanied by a letter of nomination and recommendation by a newsroom editor/manager at an organization that regularly publishes or broadcasts their work.
• Applicants must show that theater is an area of strong professional interest, that they have made theater coverage part of their regular beat, or that they have supervised journalistic coverage of this field for the past two years.
• Former NEA Institute fellows who participated in either the NEA Institute in Classical Music and Opera at Columbia University or the Institute for Dance at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina MAY apply.
• Individuals living or working in Los Angeles or New York City are NOT eligible, please email neainst@usc.edu if you are uncertain whether you qualify as living or working in either of these cities. 
• Strong preference is given to journalists who do NOT live or work in Los Angeles, New York City or Chicago. 
• Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.
• It is the intent of the NEA Arts Journalism Institute to achieve the widest possible geographic distribution of participants throughout the United States.

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