The Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) will establish a collaborative ecosystem of journalists around the world. Together, they will uncover the harmful and illegal practices of the fishing and extractive industries, systemic threats to marine biodiversity and coastal communities, and the supply chains facilitating global demand for the ocean’s increasingly dwindling resources.

In 2023 the Pulitzer Center, a global nonprofit organization that supports independent, innovative journalism, launched a unique program of ocean grants and fellowships. Based on the successful model of its pioneering rainforest reporting initiative, the program aims to expand and diversify the global community of reporters, editors, and outlets conducting investigations and publishing deeply reported ocean stories, within a network that is continually learning and growing.

Applications are now open to join the fourth cohort of the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN), a fellowship program that gives professional journalists the opportunity to spend up to a year working on an in-depth or investigative ocean story.

DEADLINE: September 13, 2026 at 11:59 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

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