News Product Programs & Initiatives
Empowering news product professionals and developing news product talent to create ethical and sustainable digital media businesses around the world.
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Ongoing initiatives
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Mentor Network Program
For the Mentor Network program, 150 emerging product thinkers will be selected and matched with one of 50 experienced news product professionals. Mentees can look forward to gaining knowledge and increasing their understanding of news product, receiving personalized guidance, and becoming part of a global network of support and practice pushing towards a more equitable media landscape.
Program Lead: Samanta Leguizamón / sam@newsproduct.org
Program start date: September 13, 2022.
Status: Applications are closed and participants will be announced by the end of October. Program will run until April 2023.
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Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms
Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms is an online, tuition-free training program for journalists by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. The program will receive three new cohorts in 2022-2023, thanks to the support of partners News Product Alliance (NPA) and the Google News Initiative.
Program Lead: Marie Gilot, J+ director at the Newmark J-School.
Program Start date: September 2022.
Status: The Americas cohort is now ongoing.
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Resource Library
The Resource Library was developed in partnership with the Google News Initiative, as part of our shared goal of empowering news product professionals and developing news product talent to create ethical and sustainable digital media businesses around the world.
Program Lead: Becca Aaronson / becca@newsproduct.org
Program Start date: November 2022.
Status: The Resource Library features over 300 free learning resources about news product thinking. As NPA’s offer of content evolves, the Library will become its learning hub.
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Product Expansion Program
The Product Expansion Program is designed to support change-makers as they bring product practices to life in their news organizations. It is a collaboration with Newmark J-School at CUNY and is created for alumni of the Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms program. It features a series of workshops to promote the implementation of product philosophy in newsrooms. It will also offer four mentoring circles for product professionals to address individual challenges.
Program Lead: Samanta Leguizamón / sam@newsproduct.org
Program start date: May 31, 2022.
Status: The program is now finished.
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NPA Global Network
To reiterate our commitment to taking NPA and its message global, we are building our non-English speaking communities network. We are building strategies to localize content and build local communities with the help of local leaders, Our pilot community is now running in Brazil.
Program Lead: Barbara Pereira / barbara@newsproduct.org
Program start date: December, 2022.
Status: The program is now ongoing.
In partnership with
Thanks to the generous support and collaboration of the Google News Initiative, we are championing product thinking and pathways in journalism by building product capacity in the media industry, offering support to change-makers from diverse backgrounds, and elevating the discipline of news product thinking.