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The 2025 Sulzberger Fellows

The 2025 Sulzberger Fellows

Announcing the 2025 Fellows for the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School.

Sulzberger 2025: 4 No-Fee Placements Now Available

Sulzberger 2025: 4 No-Fee Placements Now Available

I am excited to announce that for the upcoming 2025 cohort Columbia Journalism School is offering up to four placements to the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at no fee.

Sulzberger 2025: Applications Now Open

Sulzberger 2025: Applications Now Open

Applications are now open for the upcoming 2025 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School, which will start on January 6, 2025. They will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are due no later than October 13. The Sulzberger program trains leaders of the world’s most respected

The 2024 Sulzberger Fellows

The 2024 Sulzberger Fellows

Announcing the 2024 Fellows for the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School.

The 2023 Sulzberger Fellows

The 2023 Sulzberger Fellows

Announcing the 2023 Fellows for the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School.

Sulzberger 2023: Applications Now Open, including GNI Scholarships

Sulzberger 2023: Applications Now Open, including GNI Scholarships

Today I am excited to announce that Google News Initiative will again be sponsoring four scholarships, including tuition and travel, for leaders from groups typically underrepresented in journalism to attend the upcoming 2023 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School, which will start on January 2, 2023. Applications are

The 2022 Sulzberger Fellows

The 2022 Sulzberger Fellows

Today I am excited to reveal [https://journalism.columbia.edu/columbia-journalism-school-announces-2022-sulzberger-executive-leadership-program-fellows] the 2022 Fellows for the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School! They have been invited to be Sulzberger Fellows because we believe they have the ability to shape the future of journalism and, therefore, the future of

Sulzberger 2022: 4 GNI Scholarships (and New Dates)

Sulzberger 2022: 4 GNI Scholarships (and New Dates)

Google News Initiative will again be sponsoring four scholarships, including tuition and travel, for leaders from groups typically underrepresented in journalism to attend the upcoming 2022 Sulzberger Program, which will now start on January 3, 2022.

The 2021 Sulzberger Fellows

The 2021 Sulzberger Fellows

Today I am excited to reveal the 2021 Fellows for the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School!

Columbia Sulzberger Scholarships for Underrepresented Leaders in Journalism

Columbia Sulzberger Scholarships for Underrepresented Leaders in Journalism

Representation at the highest levels of leadership in journalism is essential to an equitable, well-functioning democracy that truly reflects the lived experiences of all of our people. Right now, the journalism industry is falling well short of having the diversity of voices in the room at the leadership level necessary

Sulzberger 2021 (New Dates!)

Sulzberger 2021 (New Dates!)

Applications for the 2021 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School are now open.

Leading the Sulzberger Program

Leading the Sulzberger Program

The Redesigned Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School Is Open For Applications From Rising Leaders in Media and Journalism

Entrepreneurs: Stop coding for a minute. Design folks: Stop running down intuition.

Entrepreneurs: Stop coding for a minute. Design folks: Stop running down intuition.

For early-stage startups, technical feats are the least important evidence of their potential.

It’s time to flare.

It’s time to flare.

I’m proud of the impact we’ve made at Matter, the team we’ve built, and the people that we have transformed. But now it’s time for me to explore.

Open Matter Phase I: Complete

Open Matter Phase I: Complete

At CUNY: the first of four class photos.To say this year started with a bang for Matter is an understatement. Just two days into the New Year, I learned that: 1. We were moving ahead with our local news innovation bootcamps with the support of Google News Initiative [https:

Thank you, Matter.

Thank you, Matter.

It’s six o’clock on a Friday morning in June. No, I’m not blissfully catching up on rest ahead of a homework-filled weekend in Chapel Hill. Instead, I find myself coordinating coffee deliveries, finalizing space setup, and extinguishing every small fire in sight before entrepreneurs arrive. Months of

8 Ways Matter Eight is Changing the Future of Media

8 Ways Matter Eight is Changing the Future of Media

Our eighth cohort is moving onward and upward. We anticipate great things. Matter kicked off 2018 with a new cohort of intelligent, capable entrepreneurs with big visions for the media companies they had begun to build. The teams came through our garage doors in February at different stages of development,

Meet the teams of Open Matter Berkeley and Open Matter Georgia!

Meet the teams of Open Matter Berkeley and Open Matter Georgia!

Participants in last month’s Open Matter MizzouAfter a brief interlude for a little thing called Matter Demo Days, we’re back next week with the final two installments of the first Open Matter bootcamp program [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter]. They’re happening on opposite coasts on the same

Matter 08 Demo Day (San Francisco)

Matter 08 Demo Day (San Francisco)

Videos from Matter 08 Demo Day in San Francisco.

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E7: Jill Koziol — Co-Founder, Motherly

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E7: Jill Koziol — Co-Founder, Motherly

Jill Koziol, Co-Founder and CEO of Motherly [https://www.mother.ly/] (and Matter Five [https://news.matter.vc/millennial-matter-five] alum!), joined us in San Francisco for a conversation with Matter Eight entrepreneurs. Pete Mortensen, Director of Program in San Francisco, talked with Jill about the incredible growth that Motherly has

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E6: Deepa Subramanian— Co-founder, Wherewithall

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E6: Deepa Subramanian— Co-founder, Wherewithall

The Drunken Walk - Deepa Subramanian - 1:10:11 Deepa Subramanian started out as a physics major and switched to computer science when she realized how much she loved… radiopublic.com Deepa Subramanian [https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamdeepa/] started out as a physics major and switched to computer

Enough is enough. It’s time to support startups that respect our rights.

Enough is enough. It’s time to support startups that respect our rights.

It’s hard to avoid the headlines. The personal information of tens of millions of people was scraped by a political consultant campaign, using the API of the world’s largest social network. There was no data breach; there were no hackers. The information taken from the API as designed

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E5: Jennifer Brandel— CEO, Hearken

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E5: Jennifer Brandel— CEO, Hearken

For this week’s speaker series, we were lucky to welcome a longtime member of our community back to Matter. Jennifer Brandel [https://medium.com/@jenniferbrandel], CEO of Hearken and Matter Four entrepreneur, joined us in New York City where she and Roxann Stafford, our Director of Program there, sat

Meet the teams of Open Matter Mizzou!

Meet the teams of Open Matter Mizzou!

Open Matter [https://news.matter.vc/a-lot-more-experiments-open-matter] rolls on! Our series of four design thinking and business model innovation bootcamps kicks off in earnest [https://news.matter.vc/announcing-the-open-matter-nyc-teams] at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on Monday, and we’re buzzing in anticipation to connect with and coach the

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E4: Caitlin Kalinowski — Oculus VR (rebroadcast)

The Drunken Walk

🎧 The Drunken Walk, S3-E4: Caitlin Kalinowski — Oculus VR (rebroadcast)

Caitlin Kalinowski [https://medium.com/@kalinowski007], Product Design Director at Oculus VR, joined us for the second time at Matter in San Francisco to share tips for better prototyping with our latest cohort. This time it was off-the-record, so we’re re-airing our episode with Caitlin from last season. Caitlin