International Press Institute Local News Accelerator 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 24, 2025

Are you a neighborhood writer asking your self methods to monetize your content material, adapt your information merchandise to altering client conduct or sustain with quickly evolving know-how? Apply for the International Press Institute Local News Accelerator 2025.

International Press Institute (IPI) Local News Accelerator is a 4-month programme the place you and your group will take sensible steps in direction of investing in your native media enterprise’ monetary and editorial sustainability. The programme, already in its third version, gives personalised advisory providers, instruments and steerage that will help you attain audiences, develop into an engaged, responsive media model and have entry to a neighborhood of native information practitioners.

Key Activities

• One month of direct wants assessments to determine your ache factors, downside statements and map options. 
• Intensive coaching targeted on instruments and expertise that may be transferred to your newsroom effectively past the period of the accelerator, targeted on downside fixing and figuring out options, viewers analysis, strategic planning, journalism codecs – audio, video, newsletters – constructed for person engagement, digital enterprise fashions and diversifying income fashions.
• One-on-one personalised advisory providers bespoke to the wants of your newsroom, with versatile, on-demand business specialists as coaches throughout the accelerator.

Benefits

• They present construction and help to determine and assist ship options that can advance initiatives towards monetary and editorial sustainability.
• IPI’s in-home specialists will conduct a complete one-on-one wants evaluation and supply steerage and personalised advisory providers to maximise profitable candidates’ advantages from the programme.
• In addition, you’ll achieve entry to a neighborhood of native information innovators from around the globe.

Eligibility

• You needs to be a legally registered media group from anyplace on this planet.
• Demonstrate a transparent concentrate on serving native audiences, with information tailor-made to the particular wants of the local people. 
• Your group ought to display a dedication to producing high quality unique journalism, adherence to moral journalism practices and dedication to press freedom.
• Your group will need to have a group of no less than two people who’re prepared to decide to accelerator actions all through the 4 months ( 4 hours per week, divided between the group of two).
• Your media ought to have a strong enterprise case and understanding of your viewers, backed up by viewers or market analysis.
• Your media ought to display a willingness to discover and implement new concepts, instruments and applied sciences to reinforce storytelling and viewers engagement, whereas studying from specialists and one another.
• Your media ought to have a transparent imaginative and prescient for the way forward for their media group, together with plans for the way they are going to develop, broaden and/or adapt.
• You should submit a proposal outlining a selected want and answer (Note: it’s anticipated that this venture will change or evolve throughout the accelerator interval).

Application

Applications are accepted till August 24, 2025 [23:59, CEST]. Only purposes in English obtained through the Jotform platform by the said date and time might be thought-about.

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For extra data, go to IPI Local News Accelerator.