Aug. 23, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Nancy Osborn
703-854-7179
nosborn@namme.org
Washington, DC - The National Association of Minority Media Executives is now accepting applications for the 2006 McCormick Tribune fellowships.
Deadline: Oct. 25, 2005
Contact: NAMME Foundation at (703) 288-6501 or by email at gjasik@namme.org.
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Eight media executives of color will be selected to join an exclusive brain trust designed to help the news media achieve its diversity goals. In addition, each fellow will participate in an innovative mentoring experience and attend one of the country’s most prestigious executive development programs.
Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 25, 2005. The fellowship year begins in January, 2006.
The fellowship program seeks to increase both the number and impact of minority media executives in the news media, helping fellows individually in their careers while providing other news media leaders the benefit of the wisdom and insight the fellows have to offer. In the process, the program adds to the critical mass of high-performing senior managers and executives of color prepared to bring the most innovative strategies to the news media’s most pressing challenges.
The McCormick Tribune Fellowship program is a partnership of the McCormick Tribune Foundation and the National Association of Minority Media Executives (NAMME) Foundation.
The fellows, four from the newspaper industry and four from the television industry, attend the premier leadership programs for media executives. Newspaper executives attend the four-week Advanced Executive Program and broadcast executives attend the seven-day Management Development Seminar for Television Executives, both conducted at the Media Management Center (MMC) at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. MMC is a joint venture of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The television seminar is a joint project of MMC and the National Association of Broadcasters.
All the McCormick Tribune Fellows-from the current class and from all previous classes-are part of a brain trust of expertise which the program regularly taps to help the news industry better achieve diversity success. There are three main parts of the brain trust component: Survey, Fall Forum and Reports.
The most recent report, "Leading the Way: Making Diversity Real" spotlights what a company would look like upon achieving diversity success and profiles media leaders who have been unusually successful at making diversity happen.
For more information, visit http://www.namme.org/programs/mccormick or contact the NAMME Foundation at (703) 288-6501 or by email at gjasik@namme.org.