The Media Management Center accelerates the business success of media companies and professional growth of media executives through its executive education programs.
The Center's directors, who have deep knowledge and practical experience in the news media, have taught thousands of media executives on six continents. In addition to Media Management Center's own directors, our award-winning programs include faculty from the Kellogg School of Management and Medill School of journalism and integrated marketing communications.
The Media Management Center offers a wide range of seminars using curricula that will address the challenges facing media executives today, regardless of the size or type of their organization. If you are looking for a unique experience that addresses your organization's specific goals and challenges, please contact Mike Smith (847.467.2065; m-smith3@northwestern.edu) to discuss the possibility of a customized seminar. We could host you here at Northwestern University, visit your group during a retreat or yearly meeting, or deliver a shorter talk in a webinar format.
Advanced Executive Program
AEP combines strategy, leadership and journalistic values in a three-week immersion program based on both research and practical experience. Designed for high-potential employees and those who need to manage across departments or media platforms, this program will help forward-thinking media leaders make smarter strategic and operational decisions.
Digital Strategies
Learn how to tackle three of the biggest hurdles legacy media companies face in a new-venture world: cultural resistance, resource allocation and shortages of certain kinds of talent. Digital Strategies is for leaders across all media platforms who need to accelerate their company digital media presence.
Strategy and Implementation for New Leaders
This management development program will orient new leaders to media and
audience trends, business strategy, marketing,
finance, and innovation. You'll learn
interpersonal and leadership skills, journalism's
role in a strategic company, and performance management.
You'll leave with tools for implementing
strategy. Each day is capped with an interactive
simulation that reinforces the lessons of the
day.
Readership Leadership
Best practice examples, case studies, and small group work will help change leaders focus their organizaton's workforce on the needs of their audience. Participants will work throughout the seminar to develop an action plan relevant to their organization. Readership Leadership is led by faculty who have helped newspapers grow audience in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe.
The Newspaper Change Seminar
You need to launch your paper in forward directions while sustaining the core products, but how do you work smart to accomplish this? This seminar will empower you with important tools necessary for making organizational changes for sustainable success. In an energizing workshop environment, you'll quickly become prepared to put new thinking into action upon returning to work. Curriculum emphasizes driving new revenue and developing new audiences across platforms.
Executive Program Focuses on Integration and Innovation
The many changes in the media are forcing media companies to push for efficiencies and innovation at the same time.
To meet that need, MMC has created an intense, innovation-focused two-week program called the Media Executive Leadership Program. It will be offered July 20-31 at the James Allen Center on the Northwestern campus.
In the middle of a devastating media recession where many newspapers and television stations are thinking only of survival, it is easy to overlook the fact that tomorrow's media organizations are being built today.
We already know some media companies will not survive. Others will so damage their brands that their future viability will be in question. Those that do survive will face a changed world, filled with great pitfalls, but also great opportunity.
In this unprecedented environment, media organizations must make one of two choices. The first is to do nothing - business as usual. Organizations that make this choice allow events and competitors to shape their destiny. Staying the same means giving up the opportunity to lead. What will be the result? Only time will tell.
The second choice is to apply proven strategic thinking and innovative ideas to traditional media brands. This approach involves moving beyond current cultural, platform and sales limitations. This second approach requires highly skilled change agents willing to use fresh thinking and the latest ideas to advance organizations into an important new world. If done right, the result will be a dynamic, forward thinking organization with the potential for incredible profits.
For almost two decades Northwestern University's Media Management Center has taken a leadership role in creating the future of media. With the resources of both the Kellogg School of Management and Medill, the Center occupies a unique role in international media development. Part research organization, part think tank, part educator, the Media Management Center is the clear leader in future media thinking.
We know the public's demand for news and information continues to grow. Some media organizations will take great advantage of this growth. They will build great brands that also result in great profits. If you are a change agent, willing to look at the world in a fresh way, then the Media Executive Leadership Program is for you.
Please download and return this application by July 6. Cost is $11,400, which covers tuition, materials, food, lodging and activity expenses - everything but transportation to Evanston.