Just in: UNITY Selects 2011 Class of New U Entrepreneurs

The New U: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY is a competitive program for journalists of color who want to become entrepreneurs.  It supports and helps grow the creative ideas of participants through a national “startup camp.”  In addition to offering a unique formula based in training and one-on-one mentoring, the program includes a competition for start-up funding to assist media entrepreneurs in realizing their ideas.

Since its inception in 2010, a total of 16 fellows, members of AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ and NAJA, have learned about entrepreneurship and had an opportunity to pitch their ideas to a carefully-selected group of mentors, panelists and guest financial experts. In fall 2010, the participants’ video pitches were voted on by their industry peers, and 4 of the 16 participants– one from each of UNITY’s alliance partner organizations – each won $5,000 in seed money to further their entrepreneurial ideas.