Study Hall Is Giving Away $4,000 To Journalists

An update on our micro-grant program.

After receiving an enthusiastic response from the community for our first “Own Your Work” micro-grant, Study Hall is launching another round of grant applications.  This time, we’re doubling the amount of money we’re giving away to $4,000. The first place winner will receive $2,000 and the second and third place winners will each receive $1,000, respectively. Apply via this link before August 31. 

“The motivation for the grant goes back to my time as a journalist,” said Matt Saincome.  “I worked at an alt-weekly with a boss who used to yell in our faces. We were pressured to write unlabeled sponsored content for advertisers and other nonsense. Luckily, a satire publication I started with $800 and a couple dedicated friends was taking off on Facebook (remember when that used to be a thing that could happen?) and all of a sudden I had to start figuring out how programmatic ads or websites worked. Eventually I did and that became my full time job.”

In that spirit, Study Hall encourages people to submit proposals for a range of projects — newsletters, zines, blogs, and resource sharing. The goal is to empower media workers to own their own work and start projects that make an impact in the media and solves some of the issues the industry is facing: How do you get people to read printed media? What’s the best way for a newsletter to survive in a crowded economy? How will you empower people who are often not included in media conversations?   Though the micro-grant is for Study Hall subscribers, if you’d like to join Study Hall, you can sign up today and get your first month off when using the discount code “GRANT2”.