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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.

Comments

I found the New Perspectives on News report last night.  It is clear and insightful.  It was on the mark in defining trends.  I plan to site it in a short talk that I am doing in Prague next month. Well done.  I will spread the word.

   • Posted by ReneeRosensteel on 11/29 at 03:00 PM

You have opened up a whole new world for me. I’m very excited to be partaking in a small measure of it.

As an older women in the business for many years, It’s refreshing to see what the younger generation is doing and to be a small part of it.

Alice Steinbacher
Bernardsville, NJ
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   • Posted by chapter2 on 04/12 at 06:03 PM

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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.