DAY 1

Welcome, presentation of participants, expectations

• Getting the context right: The context for leaders in the media industry today: Media integration and digital trends and tendencies. How does it affect your media outlet?

• Leading the newsroom: What is good, daily leadership at mid-management level? What can you personally do to increase the quality of your newsroom management?

•  The toolbox of the editorial mid-manager: The creative meeting, developing great ideas, coaching reporters, editing for higher quality and giving learning feedback. Identify one change project relating to the editorial mid-manager’s toolbox that you need to work with

• Running creative editorial meetings: How can you increase the quality and creativity of your daily editorial meetings?

• Systematic development of ideas: Tools to systematically develop great ideas

Summary and key points on day 1.

Day II

• Questions and reflections related to day 1

• Continued from yesterday ; Systematic development of ideas: Tools to systematically develop great ideas.

• Coaching of reporters to make them perform better: Learning the techniques of simple coaching and make reporters grow.

• Giving learning feedback to reporters: Focus on positive, learning feedback and reporters will improve.

• Editing for higher journalistic quality: The sub-editor’s tools to improve the text & getting to know the digital editor’s toolbox.

• Refine your change project related to the editorial mid-manager’s toolbox: Create a vision for your change and identify burning platform, change agents and benefits. Present your change project to the class.

 Summarizing and key points.