Nominations now open for
the 2026 Rosa Luxemburg Journalism Fellowship

The Daniel Singer Foundation is excited to announce the Rosa Luxemburg Journalism Fellowship.

The Rosa Luxemburg Journalism Fellowship will award one $30,000 fellowship to an early to mid-career journalist with a history of progressive writing who lacks institutional support to do their journalistic work. The fellowship will last for one year from when it is awarded. It is designed to support the ongoing work of the fellow, and is not tied to a specific project.

Nominations and applications are now open. The deadline to apply is Monday April 20th at 11:59 pm ET.

To be eligible for the Rosa Luxemburg Fellowship, applicants must be freelance or otherwise precariously employed English-language journalists or writers whose work is in line with socialist values and the work of Daniel Singer.

Daniel Singer was a Polish Jew, a French intellectual, and an international journalist. In English, he wrote for The Economist, The New Statesman, and Tribune, and he was The Nation’s Europe correspondent for twenty years. You can find some of his writing here. Singer also wrote in French, Russian, Polish, and Italian. He believed that socialism would expand democracy to the campus, the neighborhood, the office and the shop floor. Singer died in 2000 at the age of 74, and the Daniel Singer Foundation was founded in his memory.

We are accepting self-nominations as well as nominations on another’s behalf. The application requires links to six written pieces published in newspapers, magazines, or journals in the last three years (self-published work will not be considered), as well as a CV and a brief statement on how the writer’s work reflects the values of Daniel Singer. We encourage applicants to share examples of pieces they have reported, as well as opinion writing. We strongly encourage Black and Indigenous writers and other marginalized groups to apply, applicants need not be US citizens.

The fellow will be chosen by a jury, and the award will be announced in summer 2026.

Click here for the nomination form.

(Art by Paz Ahumada Berríos)