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Empowering media professionals to shape coverage, culture and leadership

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Our Programs

Since 1977, the Maynard Institute’s training programs for news organizations and journalists have changed the landscape of the journalism industry, ensuring more diversity of perspective and fostering truth and belonging in news.

The California Propel Local News Initiative

California’s local news industry is in crisis, with a quarter of the State’s news publications disappearing between 2004 and 2019. Many California counties now have a single local news source (or none at all), leaving communities vulnerable to disinformation.

To combat this, California has pioneered two initiatives, the California Local News Fellowship and the Callifornia Propel Local News Initiative, to strengthen local journalism by placing early-career reporters and editors in newsrooms for two year fellowships and training newsroom leaders to fortify a sustainable, diverse news ecosystem. Together, these programs will support 100 newsrooms annually.

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Propel Initiative Programs

Propel Regional Training

The Propel Regional Training Series is the Maynard Institute’s professional development training program, and is part of the greater  Propel Initiative, a strategic intervention to strengthen California local news.

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Propel Regional Training
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Fire Up Entrepreneurship Program

A pilot cohort to support journalism entrepreneurs in an effort to strengthen the state’s multi-lingual media ecosystem, ensuring long-term sustainability of local public service journalism for underserved localities.

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CALNF Editing Fellowship

In partnership with the California Local News Fellowship program, the Maynard Institute is supporting three reporters or producers to move into editing roles.

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CALNF Editing Fellowship

Programs For Organizations

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are more than buzzwords. They are the foundation of a healthy, vibrant and representative society.

Progress only happens through intentional practices that foster a culture of belonging. Belonging goes beyond representation. It is about having a meaningful voice and the power to shape the systems that affect our lives.

Our acclaimed training programs set up news organizations for success well into the future. We help strengthen workplace culture, rethink coverage and develop leaders who reflect and understand the communities they serve.

Programs for News Organizations

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Equity & Belonging Organization Transformation

Helping news and related organizations better inform underserved communities and establish workplace cultures of belonging.

Encourage Belonging
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Diversity Training – Fault Lines®

The Maynard Institute’s Fault Lines® Culture Shift Program gives media professionals the tools to recognize and address biases that shape news coverage.

Uplift your workplace culture

Programs For Individuals

The Maynard Institute reinvigorates the pipeline of journalists from diverse backgrounds into America’s newsrooms. Our work helps grow a more representative, inclusive media landscape. Since our founding in 1977, our professional development programs have been open to all. Distinguished media professionals and experts guide our participants with vital resources and mentorship.

Graduates of our training program emerge as bold storytellers, editors, entrepreneurs and journalism leaders.

Programs for Individuals

Maynard Communities of Practice

Open to all Maynard alumni, the Maynard Communities of Practice serve as hubs for ongoing peer learning, coaching, and engagement. 

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Maynard Regional Training Series

The Maynard Regional Training Series brings in-person, weekend-long leadership and management training to journalists across the U.S.

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Maynard Regional Training
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Oakland Voices

Oakland Voices is a journalism training program led by the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education that trains Oakland residents to tell the stories of their neighborhoods. 

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Oakland Voices
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