Our Focus

NMWE is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities. Pilot projects will show what can be done. Research will tell us what more to do. And an awards program and summit will showcase women’s creative ideas. NMWE is supported by the McCormick Foundation.

Apply Now!

Now accepting applications!
• Funding for women-led news start-ups offered by J-Lab.
•Read over the proposal guidelines here.
Deadline to apply: April 12, 2010

Last year’s winners

Keep up with the 2008 New Media Women Entrepreneurs:

Echo - This public art and civic journalism project will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta.
Latina Voices - This site offers daily news and commentary by and for Latina women, covering such topics as immigration, health care, politics, education and culture.
Northwest Navy News - This participatory site serves the 140,000 active-duty Navy and Coast Guard members, reservists, base employees and retirees in the Puget Sound area.

Project Blog:
ChickRx

The Best People to Follow
March 3, 2010

On Twitter of course! Here are the people we think entrepreneurs must follow. Almost all of them have blogs as well, but we like to go on Twitter and get a little celeb gossip mixed into our stream of professional advice too. We hope you find their insights helpful. ...

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Project Blog:
Women's Community News Franchise

Progress Report
November 06, 2009

Former MytopiaCafe.com editor Dr. Michelle Ferrier, one of three winners in the New Media Women Entrepreneurs awards, has been working to develop a complete infrastructure, to be franchised, for those individuals or groups want to launch hyper-local news sites. Ferrier is an associate professor at Elon University in North Carolina and teaches in the iMedia graduate program...

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Project Blog:
Good Food Fight

The Time is Ripe
February 8, 2010

The Good Food Strategies team went to go see Will Allen when he was in Seattle this week talking about Growing Power, the nonprofit he founded in Milwaukee with a mission to build community food systems. Allen was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award and was recently profiled in the New York Times Magazine...

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Funding for YOUR Project!

J-Lab, with funding from the McCormick Foundation, seeks to fund four women-led projects in 2010. Each project will receive up to $12,000. We are looking for individuals who have original ideas to create new Web sites, mobile news services or other entrepreneurial initiatives. Deadline: April 12, 2010. More details