Rest of World 2023 Labor x Tech Reporting Fellowship for Journalists in Developing Countries

Rest of Worldis excited to announce a new opportunity for reporters native to regions outside the West who want to produce a deeply reported body of work on how tech impacts labor and workers around the world. We are looking for four reporting fellows to join us for a full year and produce a series of articles on tech’s relationship with labor, and the tech industry’s influence on both the nature of work and the state of workers. The fellowship is designed to engage reporters native to the regions we cover who have a basic understanding of those regions’ tech and business landscape. The reporting fellows will become part of our regular reporting team on the ground, helping shape our storytelling by contributing original ideas for stories, and working alongside our reporters and editors based around the world. Rest of Worldis a non-profit journalism publication focused on exploring the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble. Our mission is to challenge expectations about whose experience with technology matters. We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated. Since we launched in 2020, we have published more than 1,000 stories from 100 countries exploring the spaces where tech, business, culture, and human experience collide, through compelling storytelling and fresh, innovative design. The reporting fellowship is funded through a grant from the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program. The Ford Foundation is an independent organization working to address inequality and build a future grounded in justice. For more than 85 years, it has supported visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. Today, with an endowment of $16 billion, the foundation has headquarters in New York and 10 regional offices across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. AtRest of World, we are building a team that values diversity and believes in telling stories from communities and countries that are often ignored around the world. Our team of 30 journalists comes from Mexico, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Japan, India, China, and Nepal, to name a few. We are an equal opportunity workplace. We value inclusion and diversity, and anyone who applies and qualifies for opportunities in the organization will receive consideration for employment without discrimination against age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, color, or disability.