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Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative

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Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative

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This fellowship for public media journalists will strengthen news leadership and ethical decision-making skills. Over nine months, participants will receive individual coaching, learn from industry experts, collaborate in small peer groups, and work on a personal project that will benefit their newsroom and their own leadership. This fellowship requires participation in twice-monthly online workshops, along with additional online meetings with peer groups and coaches and one trip to St. Petersburg, Florida, in September.

September 11, 2023– April 17, 2024

Overview

  • 25 public media journalists will be admitted to each of two cohorts in this 9-month program.
  • Free for admitted participants; tuition is covered by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  • The first fellowship cohort kicks off with a one-week, in-person conference starting Sept. 11 at the Poynter Institute.
  • Participants will join twice-monthly live, online workshops, and regularly meet with a coach and a peer group.
  • The deadline to apply for the first cohort is May 15.

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Learning Outcomes

As a Fellow chosen for this program, you would:

  • Sharpen the skills you use in making editorial and ethical decisions
  • Identify an issue facing your newsroom, and use a framework to test, learn and track progress
  • Use custom tools and assessments to gain awareness of your personal leadership style
  • Tap into the mission of public media and apply those values to your leadership and work in the newsroom
  • Deepen an audience, DEIB- and data-informed approach to meeting the information needs of communities
  • Identify skills necessary to lead high-functioning teams, manage conflict and guide your newsroom through important change
  • Focus on how to recruit, grow and retain top talent

$0.00

Application is closed

Overview

  • 25 public media journalists will be admitted to each of two cohorts in this 9-month program.
  • Free for admitted participants; tuition is covered by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  • The first fellowship cohort kicks off with a one-week, in-person conference starting Sept. 11 at the Poynter Institute.
  • Participants will join twice-monthly live, online workshops, and regularly meet with a coach and a peer group.
  • The deadline to apply for the first cohort is May 15.

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This nine-month fellowship is designed to accelerate your ability to uphold journalism’s highest editorial standards, lead through change, foster innovation, create an audience- and DEIB-focused strategy, and cultivate thriving news organizations.

This course is free for admitted participants. Tuition is covered by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The program will select two cohorts of fellows — 25 in each group — for a total of 50 participants.

Participants for the first cohort will be notified in June and convene in St. Petersburg for five days the week of Sept. 11, 2023. A second cohort application will launch in early 2024 and convene in September 2024. Applicants who aren’t selected for the first cohort can apply again for the second one when those applications are made available in early 2024.

Fellows will be matched with mentors and coaches, and will be assigned to work in small peer groups from within their cohorts.

After the in-person program launches, fellows will begin alternating-week 90-minute live online trainings, have regular check-ins with their coaches/mentors, join in conversations in a Slack workspace and build on relationships with fellowship colleagues.

Training that fellows can expect during the duration of the program will include:

  • Exploring successful approaches to leadership and ethics within public media
  • Identifying a challenge, and addressing it over the course of the fellowship
  • Focusing on community engagement, including identifying new potential audiences and using data and metrics
  • Having difficult conversations, giving feedback, empowering staff and managing your relationships with supervisors
  • Dealing with vulnerable sources
  • Recruiting and training the next generation of journalists, including in-house talent
  • Managing projects, community partnerships, budgets and resources

The fellowship’s first cohort will end in April 2024 with a virtual closing session.

We’ll provide opportunities for you to learn from and support one another, creating bonds that last beyond the life of the program.

Participants of the 2023 cohort will be notified of their selection in June.

The first event is a one-week, in-person gathering at Poynter in St. Petersburg, Florida, in September.

Over the course of the next eight months, fellows will participate in:

  • 12 live online workshops
  • Three virtual peer group meetings
  • 12 virtual one-on-one coaching sessions
  • A two- to three-day virtual closing session in April 2024

This program is designed for public media journalists currently serving in an editorial leadership role or who want to transition into editorial leadership. Applicants must commit to full participation in all aspects of the program, including the in-person week of September 11.

Application requires a strong endorsement from your supervisor and signoff from the station manager.

Instructors

Co-lead faculty

  • Sitara Nieves
    Vice President, Teaching and Organizational Strategy
    Sitara Nieves is Vice President, Teaching and Organizational Strategy at The Poynter Institute. Her portfolio includes the Digital Transformation Program and leadership training for newsrooms...
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  • Kelly McBride
    Senior Vice President and Chair of Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership
    Kelly McBride is a journalist, consultant and one of the country’s leading voices on media ethics and democracy. She is senior vice president and chair...
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Coaches

  • Fernanda Camarena
    Faculty
    Fernanda Camarena is an award-winning TV and radio reporter and editor who was most recently a manager on NBC News' Standards and Practices team, where...
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  • Tony Elkins
    Faculty
    Tony Elkins, a citizen of the Comanche Nation, is a faculty member at Poynter. His portfolio includes Poynter's early and mid-career leadership workshops Essential Skills...
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  • Marcy McGinnis
    Professional Career Coach, Former Senior Vice President, CBS News
    Marcy McGinnis is a certified professional career, leadership, and communications coach who uses her extensive experience as a broadcast media executive and academic leader to...
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  • Karen Palmer
    Karen Palmer worked for over 20 years as an assignment editor, producer, and senior producer at CBS News, CNN, and MSNBC. Later on, she supported...
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