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.

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• Funding for women-led news start-ups offered by J-Lab. Read over the proposal guidelines here.
Deadline to apply: April 12, 2010
Apply for a Community News Grant from New Voices.

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

Our Favorite Dirty Word
February 1, 2010

As co-founders of a site about young women's health, we have a lot to choose from. But our favorite dirty word is.... networking. Sometimes the N word gets a bad rap, but networking isn't just about schmoozing and BS. When you meet someone important, figure out a sincere question with which you can follow up...

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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

A New Team Member
January 28, 2010

We are still celebrating the addition of Angela Garbes to the Good Food Fight team this year to lead our effort to build and launch our site over the next few months. Angela is leading our team in the process of making final decisions on the content, communication and engagement tools of Good Food Fight...

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New Research!

New forms of journalism are being created around the country where online local news sites have launched to report on their communities. The journalism is characterized by a deliberate shift in the definition of objectivity, a drive for community conversation and discussion and other themes. Read the report.