• Visualizing Economics

  Founder Catherine Mulbrandon seeks to expand her VisualizingEconomics.com's website and create Illustrated Guides that contain infographic explainers using economic data that help journalists, teachers, students, financial bloggers and citizens understand economic numbers and policy.

• SiliconHillsNews.com

  TechChi blogger and journalist Laura Lorek will build out a startup news site for technology and biotechnology news in the Austin-San Antonio region, focusing on entrepreneurs, companies and creative people.

• Inside Women's Basketball

  Atlanta documentarian and photographer Kelly Kline will build out InsideWomensBasketball.com as the centralized news, entertainment and social networking site for some 12 million fans and participants of women's basketball.

• Mobile News Platform for Hyperlocal News

  Bo Hee Kim, a UC Berkeley graduate student plans to build a more user- and geo-friendly mobile news site for the journalism school's three hyperlocal sites that she hopes will ultimately be used by other local sites.

• Mobile Black History Project

  Using augmented reality to bring black history to the forefront, starting with historic sites in Washington, D.C.

• NolaVie

  New Orleans’ vibrant culture will take center stage with NolaVie, an unusual public/private partnership to cover arts and culture.

• Investigative Mommy Blogger

  A team lead by social media expert Kelby Carr will focus on investigations using a network of mom bloggers.

• Parent Pathway

  An organization devoted to the idea of arming parents with information on how to handle the treacherous waters of substance abuse.

• ChickRx

  An “edgy, approachable, and engaging” online health resource uniquely targeted to women, ages 18 to 27.

• Locally Grown News

  A project that created a complete infrastructure, to be franchised, for those who want to launch hyperlocal news sites.

• Good Food Fight

  Project that connects food-conscious consumers with larger public policy issues that affect food choices and sustainability

• Echo Atlanta

  An art and civic journalism project will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta.

• Northwest Navy News

  News for the 140,000 active-duty Navy and Coast Guard members, reservists, base employees and retirees in the Puget Sound area.

• Latina Voices

  Daily news and commentary by and for Latina women, covering such topics as immigration, health care, politics, education and culture.

Thanks for applying!

The deadline for the 2012 New Media Women Entrepreneur awards has passed. Thanks to everyone for applying! Winners will be announced in mid-to-late March. Those interested in next year can check out our Proposal Guidelines.

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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Research

J-Lab’s New Media Women Entrepreneurs Initiative undertook this study to understand how women are interacting with news, participating in the news, creating the news and consuming the news.
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Resources

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