April 26, 27 and 28th

NPA Summit 2023

Presented with OpenNews.

 

Welcome to NPA Summit 2023!

Check out the schedule for the NPA Summit! A virtual community event April 26-28 for news product thinkers to develop deep peer relationships, learn new skills and co-create best practices for product in the news industry.

The NPA Summit is now sold out! We don't have anymore tickets available, but we have student reporters covering the Summit and will share resources from the Summit over the next several months. Join our email list to keep up with updates.

The NPA Summit Program

We just published our full program schedule, so take a look at what we have planned for this year! This program includes hands-on sessions and activities like master classes, global discussions, social chats, and more.

Our program will take shape around:

  • Talks - Keynote talks that will create a common foundation to build on during conversations.

  • Sessions - Participatory sessions create space to get into the biggest problems facing journalism and product—together. Community members will facilitate peer conversations and hands-on workshops that draw on the experience of every attendee in the (Zoom) room. Each session block will have multiple sessions to choose from.

  • Meetups & group conversations in the NPA Slack - The NPA Slack will be a place for emergent conversations and sharing of resources and job openings. We'll also have time for social sessions about hobbies and interests outside of work.

The News Product Alliance Summit is an interactive conference, where everyone who attends actively participates throughout the event. It includes hands-on sessions and activities like master classes, global discussions, social chats, and more. For more information on what to expect as a participant, check out our participation guide.

As in the past, this year's Summit will be based around two core tracks: support and practice. We want to expand what that means this year:

  • support is who you meet, how you build those relationships

  • practice is what you do and how you get it done

We know from our community survey that finding your peers is a top priority for many NPA community members. The visual designers are looking to meet the other visual designers. There are faculty educators who want to welcome new adjuncts. There are executives seeking peers from their lonely perch at the top. This year's summit will include more wayfinding opportunities to ensure everyone is able to find folks they feel community with.

Last year’s NPA Summit brought together more than 480 news product thinkers to share ideas, co-create best practices for the news industry and learn new product skills. "I learned so much from the programming itself, but more importantly, from the community of people who were eager to share resources, experiences, links, data, words of wisdom, opportunities, and so much more," one participant told us.

Attending the Summit

  • The Summit will be an intentionally intimate experience with hands-on learning sessions and 500+ participants. This size means we need to be equitable in distributing tickets and ensuring that there are a mix of perspectives and skills represented. Our call for participation form will help us understand who would like to take part and what you're hoping to take home with you. The form is how we allocate tickets to attend the Summit.

    Tickets for the Summit will range from $150-450 (plus ticketing fees), depending on your and your employer’s ability to pay. We’ll also have no-cost scholarship tickets available to ensure the ticket price is not a hard barrier to participation.

    Add the event to your Google Calendar now to save the date. 

  • Like last year, the Summit will be 100% virtual. The sessions will largely be held on Zoom, with conversations also happening in Slack. We're also planning asynchronous activities and ways to help participants connect online with other people from their geographic region.

  • You don’t need a product title to be a news product thinker. Anyone who approaches their work from the intersection of editorial, audience, business and technology can be a news product thinker. The Summit programming is built around the concept of Ask/Give. We hope that everyone joining the News Product Alliance comes to the table seeking support and help, and also comes with an eye toward teaching and giving. We believe everyone in our community, regardless of experience or job title, has a role in leading discussion and ultimately creating change in the industry.

    The discussions and workshops at our summit will lead to the best ideas when they include the experiences of people from many backgrounds, roles, and organizations. This is an event for:

    • People already working in product management and development for news, who want to be part of a larger community changing journalism

    • People doing the often-invisible work of bringing product thinking to their newsroom, regardless of role or title

    • People who want to better understand how organizing around product can shift the way news organizations operate

 


Support the NPA Summit

Last year we awarded 120 scholarship tickets —90% of which went to women, people of color, and global participants! If you want to help us build an inclusive, diverse event, reach out to the Summit team or contact Becca Aaronson.

Some of the packages we offered last year were:

  • Newsroom Sponsors: Guarantee up to 5 Summit tickets for your team and receive personalized advice from NPA leadership on how to make the most out of the event, such as who to send from your team, recruiting tips, and the best sessions for relevant skill-building.

  • Student Newsroom Sponsors: Your support of our student newsroom will enable us to hire student participants and coaches to write and publish summaries of our best programming to share with the broader community. See the work from last year’s student newsroom.

 
 

NPA Summit is produced in partnership with OpenNews

We’re thankful for our partner OpenNews and their help producing this event. If you’ve never attended an OpenNews event, they are designed to be highly participatory and inclusive. Learn more about OpenNews’ SRCCON events.