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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

—Ida Tarbell

About this initiative

The McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs project seeks to spotlight the creative assets of women and help address issues of opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism. In addition to providing seed funding for new women-led news ideas, it will:
  • Honor a New Media Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in an awards program.
  • Research issues women's consumption and creation of news.
  • Produce a day-long Women Entrepreneurs Summit
It is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-Lab helps news organizations and citizens use new media technologies to create fresh ways for people to participate in public life. It also administers the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, the Knight Citizen News Network and the New Voices community media grant program. Its projects are supported with grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the McCormick Foundation. The McCormick Foundation supports free, vigorous and diverse news media that provide citizens the vital information they need to make reasoned decisions in a democracy. The Journalism Program is committed to non-profits that support leadership in news organizations, develop future journalists and strengthen the quality of journalism.

Award

NMWE will honor one new media woman entrepreneur with a $2,000 award in 2009.
Nominate a woman whose creative contribution to news inspires you.

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.

Check It Out

MediaShift talks to Echo team

MediaShift’s Mark Glaser recently interviewed Echo project leaders Karyn Lu and Lila King about their plans and motivations. Read the full blog post, “Digging Deeper: Locative Media Project Aims to Collect Stories of Atlanta,” at PBS.org.

Retention of Women Journalists

Women Journalists and Retention of Women Journalists graphs