Deadline: June 29, 2025.

The WIN Global Leadership Accelerator is now accepting applications for its transformative programme, designed for high-potential mid-level newsroom managers (journalists and editors) from emerging, transitional, and fragile states around the world.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

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) 

BENEFITS

1. Successful applicants will receive training in key newsroom and media management issues, while establishing a global network of peers.
2. Participants will also benefit from one-on-one coaching sessions with an ICF-certified coach to create their 3-5 year career roadmaps. 
3. 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. 

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