Tania Montalvo on our leadership programmes in 2024-25

From our Annual Report 2024-25

In the 2024-2025 academic year, the Leadership team collaborated with 199 participants from 33 countries who attended one of the 21 events we hosted, online or in-person, in Oxford and abroad.

Our programmes focus on curating international communities to create a safe, confidential space for in-depth conversations to share experiences, knowledge, and learnings about the challenges and opportunities in the media landscape worldwide. We create spaces to learn from one another and have access to the most relevant research from the Reuters Institute and many other experts in the industry.

Working with other teams at the Institute, we hosted a one-day conference featuring presentations and panel discussions about the impact of an increasingly AI-driven information ecosystem, how this technology is reshaping societies, and what that means for newsrooms and audiences. We’ve continued hosting a series of invitation only AI ‘Show and Tell’ with media leaders worldwide to create a valuable space for publishers in digital news to discuss plans, concerns, projects, and opportunities with AI.

Both online and in-person, we’ve hosted high-level discussions about strategic priorities on a three-year horizon, including the plans for innovative projects, structural transformations, or business changes to face increasing challenges. One of those discussions has been how to lead and drive change to create new processes to integrate a climate perspective in your newsroom strategy, with our ‘Leading Newsrooms in an Extreme World’ course for climate editors.

The Leadership Development initiatives – open-admission programmes, inviteonly forums, and bespoke – also cover discussions on audience, news consumption and avoidance, business sustainability, diversity, inclusion, and representation, how to navigate a crisis, team well-being, and strategic prioritisation.

Our newsletter series, Spotlight on Newsroom Leadership, continues to publish interviews, research, reading recommendations, and insights from other leaders to understand the issues senior newsroom leaders currently face. We have covered topics such as how to learn from projects that did not work as expected, how to build your learning career plan, how to respond to the climateconscious concerns in your team, and how to create a culture of care.

More on our leadership programmes:

• An overview of our programmes
• Everything you need to know about the courses
• Our research and reporting on newsroom leadership