October 23-24

NPA Summit 2025: News Products for a Consumer-Driven Era

Redefining journalism for democratic resilience in the age of AI and platform fragmentation.

Join us on October 23 and 24 in Chicago for the NPA Summit 2025! Add the event to your Google Calendar or download a calendar invite to save the date.

About the NPA Summit Program

The News Product Alliance Summit is a high-impact, hands-on event where participants actively engage in shaping the future of news. And for the first time in 2025, we’re transforming our valued virtual gathering into an immersive, face-to-face experience. The NPA Summit is not your typical industry conference; it’s a space purpose-built for news leaders to strengthen their expertise in product management while collaborating to tackle shared challenges and uncover innovative solutions to the most pressing issues in the field.

Since its launch in 2021, the virtual NPA Summit has convened over 500 news product professionals annually, creating a space for collaboration, skill-sharing, and innovation. This year, we’re raising the bar with our first in-person gathering—an unmissable opportunity to connect, grow, and lead in the evolving news product ecosystem.

Join us and shape the future of news

Ticket sales will begin in Spring 2025. Stay tuned for further announcements, which will be shared across our official channels. To ensure you don't miss out on any updates and receive detailed information as it becomes available, subscribe to NPA’s mailing list:

This year, our programming will tackle how news product professionals can:

  • Address and adapt to the needs of fragmented, diverse audiences. 

  • Drive purposeful AI & technology implementation. 

  • Develop journalism products that can match audience needs with concrete business results.  

  • Support news products that rebuild trust in institutions, counter news avoidance and support democracy.

Through master classes, interactive workshops, and collaborative sessions, attendees will gain actionable insights and forge connections to strengthen their organizations and communities. Get ready to pitch your ideas for the Summit during our call for session proposals, which will open in March 2025.

Participating at The Summit

  • For the first time, the NPA Summit 2025 will take place in person! Join us in Chicago, USA, on October 23 and 24. Tickets will go on sale in Spring 2025.

    Since this year’s Summit is in person, we chose Chicago to enhance the ease of international and domestic U.S. travel. We will also record some content to make available for participants who can’t join us on-site to ensure accessibility. Stay tuned for more details about how to participate!

  • The NPA Summit 2025 is designed for mid-to-senior level professionals driving news product strategy and execution. This is a gathering for news product managers, editorial leaders, and other news professionals who operate at the intersection of editorial, audience, business, and technology—whether or not “product” is in your title. The Summit is a space for those ready to collaborate, network, and tackle challenges facing the news industry.

  • To make the NPA Summit as accessible as possible, we offer a range of ticket options, including limited cost-free community-supported tickets for those who would not otherwise be able to attend. We prioritize Black and Indigenous participants, people of color, and international journalists for these tickets. Applications for community-supported tickets will be available once ticket sales open in Spring 2025.

    Here are the ticket tiers (plus ticketing fees):

    • $575: Full organizational support.

    • $475: Partial organizational support. 

    • $375: Pay your own way.

    • $0: Community-supported tickets.

  • The Call for Session Proposals for the NPA Summit 2025 will open in March 2025. Sign up for our mailing list to get updates as soon as it opens.

  • If you have any additional questions or need further clarification, please feel free to get in touch with us at summit@newsproduct.org. We are here to help and look forward to assisting you!

  • The News Product Alliance is happy to offer a number of partnership opportunities to meet sponsors' goals and budgets, including options to support accessibility, networking spaces and programming. Learn more about them by contacting feli@newsproduct.org.