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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

2010 New Media Women Entrepreneur Funding Application

The deadline for applying for NMWE funding has passed. Thanks to everyone who submitted their applications. We will announce the winners this summer. Best of luck to everyone!


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2010 Winners!

J-Lab Announces Four Awards for New Media Women Entrepreneurs

Read the press release

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.

Innovative Research

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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.