March 10 and 11th

NPA Summit 2022

Presented with OpenNews.

News Product Alliance Sponsor

Summit Scholarship & Partner Sponsor

 

Welcome to the News Product Alliance Summit!

Check out the schedule for the NPA Summit! A virtual community event March 10-11 for news product thinkers to develop deep peer relationships, learn new skills and co-create best practices for product in the news industry.

Registered attendees, you can start participating right now, with all the sign-in links here on Eventbrite.

The NPA Summit is 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 2022 News Product Alliance Summit will be held March 10-11. Add the event to your Google Calendar or download a calendar invite now to save the date. 

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

The NPA Summit 2022 Program

Over the next two days, our program will take shape around:

  • Talks - Two keynote talks will create a common foundation to build on during conversations. Participants can watch two of them in advance and submit questions ahead of time (links available to registered attendees through Eventbrite). We'll also broadcast the talks live with a Q+A.

  • 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.

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.

The News Product Alliance Summit is an interactive conference, where everyone who attends actively participates throughout the event. For more information on what to expect as a participant, check out our participation guide.

It features two programming tracks: Support and Practice. In the Support track, you’ll form deep connections with peers and discuss topics like navigating a unique career path, confronting challenges in your work, and building your confidence as a leader and changemaker. In the Practice track, you’ll have the opportunity to learn news product management skills, share case studies and insights, and collaborate to define best practices for news product management.

Last year’s inaugural NPA Summit brought together more than 400 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! 

This year’s NPA Summit will offer even more opportunities to level up in your news product career. You can bet that there will be a schedule full of thought-provoking interactive sessions, product training for all skill levels, and plenty of time to just get to know one another. Want to be there? Let us know.

Attending the Summit

  • The Summit will be an intentionally intimate experience with hands-on learning sessions and 450+ 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.

    Fill out the call for participation form now to let us know you'd like to be at the Summit!

  • Like last year, the Summit will be 100% virtual and you can check out the full schedule. 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. Our ticket structure will be similar to last year, with tiers from $150-450 (plus ticketing fees) and free scholarship tickets.

  • 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


News Product Alliance is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Thanks to our sponsors for supporting this year’s Summit!

Partner & Scholarship sponsor

 

Accessibility Sponsor

 

Student Newsroom Sponsors

Break Sponsor

 

Newsroom sponsors

Collaborative Futures Sponsor

 

Event Sponsor

 

Learn more about NPA Summit 2022 sponsors.

Support the NPA Summit

Last year we awarded 100 free tickets — 96% of which went to women, people of color and global participants! If you want to help us build an inclusive, diverse event, check out our Summit sponsorship opportunities. This year we’ve added two new sponsorship opportunities:

  • 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.

If you’d like to sponsor this event or donate to the News Product Alliance, contact Feli Carrique at feli@newsproduct.org.

 

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.