2025 Women in News (WIN) Global Leadership Accelerator: (Deadline: 29 June, 2025)
Applications are open for the Women in News (WIN) Global Leadership Accelerator 2025. The WIN Global Leadership Accelerator is a transformative programme, designed for high-potential mid-level newsroom managers (journalists and editors) from emerging, transitional, and fragile states around the world.
Journalists with a passion for the news industry, with a minimum 5-10 years active experience in the newsroom, should apply. This is a high-impact programme with demonstrable results: on average 60% of successful graduates report direct career progression (promotion, or lateral move of their choice) within 3 months of programme completion. More than 1,500 journalists and editors have progressed through the WIN Leadership Accelerator since 2015.
Benefits
- Successful applicants will receive training in key newsroom and media management issues, while establishing a global network of peers.
- Participants will also benefit from one-on-one coaching sessions with an ICF-certified coach to create their 3-5 year career roadmaps.
- Upon completion of the programme, participants will receive a certificate of completion with professional designation from WAN-IFRA.
Eligibility
The successful applicant will possess the following:
- 5-10 years direct newsroom experience as a journalist (reporter, correspondent editor).
- Demonstrated passion for the news media industry and a commitment to gender equality and inclusion, as well as principles of press freedom.
- Identify as a woman and/or be drawn from a historically vulnerable/at risk community.
- Be located outside of the traditional WIN Accelerator markets.
- Possess strong spoken and written knowledge of English (the programme will be delivered primarily in English).
- The ability to commit 1-2 hours per week for 21 weeks in order to participate thoroughly in the programme (candidates who miss more than 20% of seminars will be given an incomplete)
Deadline: June 29, 2025
Application
For more information, visit WIN Global Leadership Accelerator.
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