Women in News (WIN) Global Leadership Accelerator 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 29, 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 top-potential mid-degree newsroom managers (journalists and editors) from rising, transitional, and fragile states world wide.

Journalists with a ardour for the information business, with a minimal 5-10 years lively expertise in the newsroom, ought to apply. This is a excessive-impression programme with demonstrable outcomes: on common 60% of profitable graduates report direct profession development (promotion, or lateral transfer of their selection) inside 3 months of programme completion. More than 1,500 journalists and editors have progressed by way of the WIN Leadership Accelerator since 2015.

Benefits

• Successful candidates will obtain coaching in key newsroom and media administration points, whereas establishing a world community of friends.
• Participants may also profit from one-on-one teaching classes with an ICF-licensed coach to create their 3-5 yr profession roadmaps.
• Upon completion of the programme, contributors will obtain a certificates of completion with skilled designation from WAN-IFRA.

Eligibility

The profitable applicant will possess the next:

• 5-10 years direct newsroom expertise as a journalist (reporter, correspondent editor).
• Demonstrated ardour for the information media business and a dedication to gender equality and inclusion, in addition to ideas of press freedom.
• Identify as a lady and/or be drawn from a traditionally weak/in danger neighborhood.
• Be situated exterior of the standard WIN Accelerator markets.
• Possess robust spoken and written information of English (the programme might be delivered primarily in English).
• The means to commit 1-2 hours per week for 21 weeks in order to take part completely in the programme (candidates who miss greater than 20% of seminars might be given an incomplete) 

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to WIN Global Leadership Accelerator.