Campus Transparency Fellowship

A Hands-On Education in Investigative Journalism.

Take Your Journalism Skills to the Next Level.

The Campus Transparency Fellowship offers diverse programming and resources to participants.  The 2025-26 curriculum included:

• Monthly webinars with industry professionals.  Fellows discussed topics such as source cultivation with The Free Press's Washington Correspondent Audrey Fahlberg, Records Requests with Manhattan Institute's John Sailer, and hosted The Economist's Senior Editor James Bennet as their inaugural commencement speaker.
• Bookending conferences with specialized curriculum; The opening conference, held in Annapolis, MD, in late August, featured keynote speaker Eliana Johnson, Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Free Beacon, and introduced fellows to investigative basics in conversation with professional journalists from outlets such as National Review and CBS.   Fellows attended the TFAS National Student Journalism Honors conference in Dallas, TX, in late March, on a separate curriculum track that covered professional development and legal changes to higher education, featuring faculty from The Wall Street Journal and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
• Article workshopping, editing assistance and publication placement from TFAS staff.  Fellows shone a light on issues at their home universities, including administrative malpractice, free speech violations, campus antisemitism and more.  Their work has appeared in national publications such as The Washington Free Beacon, The Carolina Journal and National Review, and been featured in outlets like The New York Post.