Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders (Winter)

Hey, managers: Need a shot of confidence? It’s time to let Poynter help you jumpstart your management career.

Maybe you’re an inexperienced manager just starting your new role. Or maybe you’ve got managerial experience but have had little training. In either case, you could use some tools — along with that dose of confidence.

Poynter’s popular “Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders” seminar will give you both: the tools and the confidence to lead and grow a staff of high-performing journalists.

You’ll receive personalized feedback — from your newsroom — about your strengths and challenges. You’ll get help for leading your staff through the transition of becoming digital-first. You’ll get customized advice for addressing your most pressing concerns with coaching from Poynter faculty, one-on-one.

After the weeklong seminar at Poynter’s campus in St. Petersburg, Florida, you’ll return home with confidence and management tools that will begin paying dividends immediately.

Instructors

This year’s seminar will be led by Poynter’s leadership dream team: current leadership faculty Cheryl Carpenter and previous leadership faculty Butch Ward. Combined, they have decades of experience leading Pulitzer Prize-winning newsrooms, training managers around the world on ethics and business and espousing Poynter’s unique brand of personalized teaching.

Carpenter and Ward will be joined by other members of Poynter’s faculty along with some of the country’s leading news managers and innovators. Please check this page for instructor updates.

What you will learn

• Establish your credibility as a leader, even if you are new in your role
• Manage people who were once your peers, friends or bosses
• Provide feedback and coaching that will help your staff improve
• Conduct difficult conversations that get results
• Use your time more effectively
• Build trusting relationships with your staff, your peers — and your boss
• Focus your staff’s work on the audiences you serve
• Understand how analytics can help inform your coverage and improve your staff’s work
• Organize teams that collaborate to get important stuff done

Schedule

Below is a tentative schedule for the 2019 program. Sessions and instructors are subject to change.

Who should apply

New managers from digital, broadcast and print organizations. This seminar is also beneficial to experienced managers who have had little or no management training. Employees who are about to be promoted will also be considered for acceptance.

Application process

The process to apply is straightforward and simple. No letter of recommendation is required, but you will need to provide a reference. Please be prepared to answer questions about your professional experience, areas of interests and basic demographic information.

Cost

Tuition is $1,395. Travel and hotel expenses are not included. Please note that Poynter negotiates deeply discounted hotel rates at a nearby hotel.

Questions?

We’d love to hear from you. Email us at seminars@poynter.org.