API awards fellowships to newspaper employees and journalism educators from the United States and Canada to attend API seminars. These fellowships are financed through the generosity of individuals, organizations and trusts.
 
Note: The NAA Minority Fellowships and the  James H. Ottaway, Jr. International Fellowship require separate forms. Please see details below.

How to apply:

• Click on API Fellowship Application and complete the online form.
• Review and select a fellowship from the list below.
• Select an API seminar you’d like to attend.
• Please submit a separate application for each fellowship and seminar.
• Upload a letter by the applicant, a letter from the applicant's supervisor and a resume or vitae.

The Edmund C. Arnold Fellowship honors the distinguished newspaper-design consultant who led more than 220 API seminar discussions. Mr. Arnold received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute in 1999. The fellowship is designated for visual seminars and provides tuition, hotel, group meals and, if funds permit, a small travel stipend.

The Malcolm F. Mallette Fellowship honors a former executive director of API. It provides tuition, hotel, group meals and, if funds permit, a small travel stipend for an editor of a newspaper with daily circulation under 50,000.

The William L. Winter Fellowship honors a former executive director/president of API. It provides tuition, hotel, group meals and, if funds permit, a small travel stipend for a newspaper executive who desires to enhance his/her leadership abilities.

The James H. Ottaway Sr. Fellowship honors the late chairman of Ottaway Newspapers Inc. and member of the API Board of Directors. It covers tuition, hotel, group meals and a small travel stipend.

The Rollan D. Melton Fellowship honors the late Reno Gazette-Journal columnist, president of Speidel Newspapers and API Board member. It is open to college-level journalism educators who are members of a recognized minority group, and covers tuition, hotel, group meals and a small travel stipend.

The Minority Journalism Educators Fellowship is open to college-level journalism educators who are members of a recognized minority group, and covers tuition, hotel, group meals and a small travel stipend.

The Minority Journalism Educators Fellowship is open to college-level journalism educators who are members of a recognized minority group, and covers tuition, hotel, group meals and a small travel stipend.

NAA Minority Fellowships: API cooperates with the Newspaper Association of America Foundation to make NAA Minority Fellowships available for API seminars. The foundation sets eligibility requirements and makes awards independently. To download the application, please click here. NAA fellowship applications should be sent directly to the Newspaper Association of America. For information about the NAA Foundation program, please email Jeanne Fox Alston or call (571) 366-1005.

James H. Ottaway, Jr. International Fellowship honors the late chairman of Ottaway Newspapers Inc. and member of the API Board of Directors. It is awarded to newspaper executives in emerging democracies to attend API seminars. Its goal is to improve the independent editorial content and independent financial strength of a free press, which is essential to the development of democracy and free markets. The James H. Ottaway, Jr. International Fellowships cover tuition, conference hotel and meal package during the seminar, round-trip airfare from the country of origin to one of the Washington, D.C.’s area airports, and ground transportation to and from the airport. Fellowship recipients assume all other costs. Applicants must hold the title of publisher, editor or general manager of daily newspapers in emerging democracies; have a minimum of five years’ experience as a senior manager; and be fluent in oral and written English, as seminars are conducted in English. To download an application form, please click here.