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Women in News Global Leadership Accelerator Programme 2025

Posted on: 11 Jun, 2025 Deadline: 29 Jun, 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.

Journalists with a passion for the news industry and with a minimum of 5-10 years of active experience in the newsroom should apply.

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.

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.

Summary

Application Deadline: June 29, 2025
Type: Entrepreneurs
Sponsor: Women in News (WIN)
Gender: Women

Eligibility Criteria for Women in News Global Leadership Accelerator Programme 2025

Journalists with a passion for the news industry and with a minimum of 5-10 years of active experience in the newsroom should apply.
Required time input for this 21-week programme: 1-2 hours per week for 20 weeks.

The successful applicant will possess the following:

5-10 years of 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 of Women in News Global Leadership Accelerator Programme 2025

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.

How to Apply

Apply now by filling the application form below the webpage

Please note: Applicants from current WIN countries are not eligible for this programme at this time. If you are from any of the countries listed below, please stay tuned for the 2025 WIN Accelerator call for applications later in the year.

Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Arab Region: Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon Southeast Asia: The Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar

For more details, visit Women in News Programme webpage

Application Deadline

June 29, 2025

Application Link(s)

Apply for Women in News Global Leadership Accelerator Programme 2025

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