(offre en anglais) The Online News Association(ONA) lance un appel à participation pour Women’s Leadership Accelerator forum عودة إلى الفرص

ONA’s 2017 Women’s Leadership Accelerator is a weeklong forum aimed squarely at developing strong leadership skills for women working in digital journalism.

The Accelerator, to be held Feb. 5-10, 2017, at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (California ), is open to 25 promising women leaders who are pushing innovation in their organization.

The focus for the week will be on developing critical leadership skills and tools for navigating change, as well as finding solutions to the unique challenges faced by women in media and technology. Participants also will target and work through a challenge specific to their careers.

In addition to learning leadership skills and tools for navigating change, participants will focus on a challenge specific to their careers, whether an obstacle to overcome or an aspirational goal to achieve, either within their organizations or as an independent project.

The Accelerator forum offers a unique blend of practical guidance, mentorship and off-the-record group discussion, providing a built-in support system for the future. It is squarely aimed at expanding the pipeline, retention and engagement of emerging women leaders in the digital journalism industry, drawing on the expertise of media executives and game-changers and using real-world use cases.

“The results of past trainings, and the strong bonds among the cohorts that have emerged, have proven the effectiveness of this unique approach,” said ONA Executive Director Jane McDonnell. “We’re delighted to join with the Dow Jones Foundation and USC Annenberg to provide more opportunities to seed empowered women leaders in newsrooms.”

The Accelerator is open to all women working in digital media, including freelancers, entrepreneurs and independent journalists. ONA will screen candidates for potential, need and diversity across ethnicity, age, geography, technology platforms and skill sets.

The tuition-free program offers:

• A focus on developing leadership and management skills, with special attention to challenges faced by women in media.
• Discussions, deep dives and one-on-one mentoring from some of the top women leaders in digital journalism.
• Proven creative approaches to pushing innovation in newsrooms.
• Practical, targeted guidance to working through individual challenges.
• Open, candid discussions about leadership, work-life balance and problem-solving in the newsroom.
• The opportunity to build a cohort of peers to serve as a strong career-long support system.

  The Accelerator will bring a range of prominent women leaders as speakers and mentors to Los Angeles.