New Media Women Entrepreneurs (NMWE) Â will fund three women-led start-ups that will generate new ideas in the world of news and information and model a spirit of journalistic entrepreneurship. Winners will be given $10,000 to launch their ideas and blog about the process over the next year.NMWE seeks to map the creative assets of women and validate new ideas.
It is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland.
The funding is part of a unique initiative to address issues of opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism. Funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, the New Media Women Entrepreneurs (NMWE) initiative will:
- Provide $10,000 each to help launch three women-led news ideas.
- Honor a New Media Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in an awards program.
- Research women’s consumption and creation of news and explore creative opportunities in today’s newsrooms.
- Produce a day-long Women Entrepreneurs Summit to unveil pilot projects, spotlight other entrepreneurial ideas, and release research findings.
- Collect new ideas, research and more at www.newmediawomen.org.
Check out existing research, suggest new research, and read the funding guidelines at www.newmediawomen.org.
Deadline for proposals is May 1, 2008.