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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

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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

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 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

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.

Funding for YOUR Project!

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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