First Name

Last Name

Preferred name or nickname

Email Address

What is your country of origin?

What country are you currently based in?

What state/province are you located in?

What city are you located in?

How would you best describe your identity?

Please Explain:

We recognize the options above are incomplete. Tell us how else you describe your identity.

What are your preferred pronouns?

Please specify

Please share a link to a professional page such as LinkedIn, Twitter, personal website, or bio/staff page on your employer’s website.

Job Title

Current employer If you are self-employed or currently out of work, please indicate that.

Current employer website If you are self-employed or currently out of work, please indicate that.

Which of the following best describes your current organization? If you feel that more than one applies, choose the most representative.

Please Explain:

What is the size of your newsroom/venture? (How many reporters, editors and other journalists work in your newsroom?)

Does the organization you work in have a dedicated product team?

Can you provide a description of a product or multiple products you have been involved in? Please outline your role in the development or management of these products and highlight key lessons you learned throughout the process. (100-200 Words)

What do you want to get out of this training? What challenges do you envision this program will help you to overcome? (100-200 Words)

What are your strengths or areas of expertise that you'd bring to the cohort? (100-200 Words)

Participants will develop and present a capstone project focused on developing or refining a product strategy. What products or challenges are you currently facing that you may want to address in your capstone project? (100-200 Words) NOTE: The ideas you list here can be adjusted when you start the program.

This training will be conducted entirely in English. Are you comfortable communicating in English in a learning environment?

Are you willing to commit to attending the live sessions, and coaching meetings, and working independently on project work/course materials such as readings, videos, and activities, which we estimate should all take about 7-10 hours a week?

Please upload your resume to Google Drive or Dropbox and paste the link here. NOTE: Double-check your sharing settings to ensure that we will be able to view your resume on our end. Please do not copy and paste your entire resume here.

If accepted, how do you plan to finance this program? If more than one apply, select Other and further elaborate.

Please provide more detail on how you plan to finance this program.

How did you find out about the program. Check any or all that apply. Colleague/FriendPersonal outreach by program organizersFacebookLinkedInTwitterNPA Slack groupNewmark Graduate School of Journalism (CUNY) newsletterNPA newsletterIJNet/ICFJJournalism associationWeb searchOther

If you chose Other, please explain where you heard about the program.

Please provide the name and email address of Reference 1.

Please provide the name and email address of Reference 2.

Are you currently or have you in the past received training from/at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY or News Product Alliance? If so, please list the training.

Please use this space to share anything else you'd like to tell us about yourself or your application. Include supplemental comments, info, links, or anything else that you think we should know.

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