Knight-Wallace Fellowships offer a broad range of accomplished journalists an academic year of study and collaborative learning at the University of Michigan. Through this fellowship, journalists who are eager for growth and deeply committed to the future of their profession have the opportunity to deepen knowledge, develop new ideas and address challenges facing the journalism industry.

Each year Wallace House Center for Journalists awards Knight-Wallace Fellowships to a small cohort of U.S. journalists for immersive projects touching on a range of areas including education, public policy, sports, health and medicine, technology and news innovation, transportation and environment, and international reporting. For the 2026-27 academic year we’re building on our long-running fellowships with two new fellowships focused on areas critical to the future of journalism.

The Great Lakes Local News Fellowship and Arts Journalism Fellowship will allow selected journalists to be members of the Knight-Wallace Fellowship class and pursue directed study in entrepreneurship, data-driven survey research, and cross-disciplinary arts research. Applicants for these two new fellowships should apply using our general application. Their applications essays must address the focus and requirements of the specialized fellowships as outlined below.