Documented Media Training Program 2026 for Newsrooms in the U.S. ($10,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: October 12, 2025

Applications are open for the Documented Media Training Program 2026. The 2026 Building Bridges: An Immigrant Media Training Program will provide a sensible, intensive, and extremely supportive coaching program for six newsrooms in launching an editorial product based mostly on inclusive, moral, and excessive-high quality journalism produced for and with immigrant communities in their area. The coaching is grounded in ideas of constructing belief and fostering longstanding relationships with immigrants. Two further cohorts will probably be chosen in 2027 and 2028.

Newsrooms will comply with a 15-module course to create an editorial product from scratch or to overtake an present one designed for, but additionally with, immigrant communities. Several modules will even give attention to constructing stakeholder buy-in and funding curiosity to help sustainability. The program will provide weekly digital periods and workplace hours with Documented’s workers and subject material specialists in the subject to help them in the course of. 

Benefits

• Each chosen newsroom will obtain $10,000 in stipends to launch the product and can take part in a closing funding spherical to obtain additional funds for its growth.
• At the finish of the program, contributors will probably be invited to hitch a neighborhood of follow to obtain ongoing help and peer recommendation on growing their product and contribute to a rising subject of neighborhood-pushed journalism.

Eligibility

• This coaching is meant for reporters, producers, editors, and managers working in any newsroom in the United States and its territories who’re keen and dedicated to higher serve immigrant communities.
• One full-time worker should be obtainable (and excited!) to take part in the digital weekly periods, and one part-time or full-time worker should be devoted to supporting the undertaking growth, fundraising, and sustainability.

Application

The coaching program will start in mid-January 2026 and can conclude in early May 2026. Exact days will probably be shared with contributors upon acceptance. 

Participant newsrooms might want to dedicate roughly 8-10 hours per week to reviewing the modules’ content material, attending digital periods, and finishing necessary assignments, which can help them in researching, designing, prototyping, testing, and launching the new product, amongst different studying actions. 

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For extra info, go to Documented Media Training Program.