Retention of Women Journalists
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
—Ida Tarbell
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
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