October 11

NPA Summit 2024: Tech & Trust

How News Product Leaders are solving journalism's toughest challenges with audience, tech, and business expertise.

The 2024 News Product Alliance Summit will be held October 11, 2024. Add the event to your Google Calendar or download a calendar invite now to save the date. This year’s Summit theme “Tech & Trust” will bring us together to focus on how News Product Leaders are solving journalism's trust challenges with audience, tech, and business expertise.

About the NPA Summit Program

The News Product Alliance Summit is a hands-on virtual 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.

This year’s Summit will feature three session types:

Master Classes: Learn from your NPA peers on intermediate to advanced news product topics. These sessions will feature topic experts from our community, while providing an interactive space to delve into the discussion.
Interactives: Our participatory sessions create space to confront 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.
Keynote: Hear inspiring and challenging conversations from leaders in the News Product field.

The 2024 NPA Summit will offer more opportunities to level up your news product career and build lasting relationships with your peers across the global NPA community. We’ll open our call for participation in Fall 2024, so that you can submit ideas on what sessions you’d like to lead or participate in.

Since 2021, the NPA Summit has brought together more than 500 news product thinkers annually to share ideas, co-create best practices for the news industry and learn new product skills. More than a third of last year’s attendees told us the NPA influenced a job or title change they secured in the past year.

Here’s what previous Summit participants had to say about our program:

"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.”

“[The Summit] helped me get my current job and helped me immensely in the past 3 years to shape my career path as a news product journalist.”

“Being able to create solutions together with creatives from all different disciplines has been eye-opening and essential to my career growth and the way I view innovation in my newsroom.”

The 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.

We’ll open our call for participation in Fall 2024.
To ensure global accessibility, the NPA Summit is 100% virtual. This year, we’re accommodating more time zones, and will feature programming from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. EST. We’ll also record our master classes for the first-time ever, so that participants from around the world can access more of the program.
We are committed to ensuring global access to this event, particularly for people from historically marginalized communities. Our ticket structure offers tiered prices from $150-$395, depending on your and your employer’s ability to pay, and we have a robust scholarship program. Last year, we awarded 120 scholarship tickets, 82% to people from historically marginalized communities.
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: All community members should feel safe to ask others for help in one way or another, and every member of our community — regardless of experience, career level or background — has essential strengths and knowledge to give to others. 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

If you want to help us build an inclusive, diverse event, check out our Summit sponsorship opportunities. Our sponsorship opportunities include:

Partnership Sponsors: Receive maximum visibility for your support of all aspects of conference programming and planning. We develop unique packages for each partnering sponsor. In previous years, partners have led some of our most popular sessions during the program.
Event Sponsors: Create visibility for your brand and secure tickets for team members. Event sponsors help the next generation of news product leaders develop deep peer relationships, learn new skills and co-create best practices for the future of the industry.
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.