Applications Invited for Google News Initiative Newsroom Leadership Program

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About the Organization

Ten years after Joseph Pulitzer first proposed a world‐class journalism school at Columbia, classes began on September 30, 1912. Seventy‐nine undergraduate and graduate students enrolled, including a dozen women. Classes convened at several locations around campus, as the Journalism building was still under construction. Its doors opened the next year and in 1917 the first Pulitzer Prizes(link is external) were awarded.

About the Fellowship

In today’s evolving media landscape, every journalist must also think like a publisher, especially emerging newsroom leaders and managers. This program, created in partnership with the Google News Initiative, will teach newsroom leaders living and working in India how to lead through change, identify and build on opportunities for entrepreneurship, and further diversity and inclusion of underrepresented groups within their newsrooms.

This virtual program aims to enhance the leadership skills and nimble decision-making capacity of newsroom leaders working and living in India, with particular focus on applied technology, audience-centric behaviors, design thinking, data applications, emerging business models and editorial innovation. Fellows will gain skills and knowledge to make better strategic decisions for their newsrooms and audiences. Each Fellow will also work on a specific project during the year that is relevant to their newsroom within the main fellowship topics: technology, monetization and data. Each fellow's work should further diversity within newsroom leadership in India, including though not limited to age, caste, gender, gender identities, religion, abilities, geographic location, and sexual orientation.

 The program emphasizes:

• Building a practical understanding of how news companies around the world —large and small, legacy and start-up—actually operate as businesses, and how technology has revolutionized what it means to be a publisher.
• Developing a framework for evaluating the costs and benefits of introducing technology-driven changes into the workflows and resourcing of units, and how to present a plan for change to managers and direct reports.
• Leveraging data and the latest technology to create compelling content and understand audiences, while thinking about publishing products when putting together the complete reporting package. 

 Specific topics may include:

• Understanding both traditional and new revenue models
• Handling disruption and transition
• The role of data in the newsroom and the Board Room
• Recruitment, retention, and newsroom culture
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion when building teams
• Design-Thinking and Building News Products

How to Apply

The application requires:

• A complete CV;
• One personal goals essay;
• One letter of recommendation from a current colleague or manager who can speak to the applicant’s current role, professional achievements and capabilities;
• A letter of endorsement from the applicant’s employer, attesting to allowing paid leave for the applicant to participate in the virtual residency and other components of the program and endorsement of the individual project area/ issue that the applicant will work on for the duration of the fellowship;
• Articulation of the individual project area/issue that they want to focus on during the program term.

 All application materials must be submitted by 11:59pm ET, December 20, 2021.

 The application process and the selection of Fellows will be managed by Columbia Journalism School.

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