Applications for the 2025 Wharton Seminars are now closed. 

Each year, NPF provides funds for two journalists to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists for free. NPF has sent more than 45 journalists to the seminars in Philadelphia over a relationship spanning two decades. The award covers registration fees, hotel and travel to Philadelphia.

Shannon Najmabadi of The Washington Post and Jorja Siemons of Bloomberg Tax were the 2025 Wharton recipients.

Shannon Najmabadi and Jorja Siemons attending the Wharton Seminars in October 2025.