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The MTC @ Medill Executive Leadership Fellowship Class of 2026 launched its year-long journey last week at the Poynter Institute.

Thirty-one media leaders reflect on the risks they took, the assumptions they unlearned, and the measurable change they led across newsrooms, audiences, and organizations worldwide.

These 30 executives just began a yearlong program recognized for its unique tools, coaching support, and interconnected alumni network​

When the documentary, The Stringer, premiered on Netflix recently, eagle-eyed MTC Alumni may have noticed Santiago Lyon ’12 examining new evidence around an iconic war photograph, a role that underscores his enduring dedication to authenticity, transparency, and strategic leadership.

Media Transformation Challenge (MTC) is proud to announce a new partnership with The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University effective for the 2026 cohort – MTC’s 20th.

During a recent Media Transformation Challenge virtual workshop, MTC Coach Stéphane Mayoux and 2019 MTC Alumni, Interim Executive Director of the Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative, and co-author of the State of Local News Project, Mackenzie Warren, explored a surprising insight emerging from the report: sometimes a news organization’s most powerful resource is not something it has, but something it doesn’t.

When Rupa Jha joined the Media Transformation Challenge at the height of COVID in 2021, she was logging on from Delhi at three in the morning. Still, she insists it never felt like a burden. “It was an oasis,” she said.

LONDON – Reuters’ Jane Barrett joined MTC months after confronting a newsroom-wide disconnect during the 2015 migrant-caravan story: text editors, photographers and videographers were working in silos.

Dozens of European MTC alumni and select journalism leaders from Reuters, The Associated Press, BBC News, Financial Times, News Corps, Zetland, Tamedia, and more, came together from across the European journalism ecosystem for the Media Transformation Challenge London Leadership Forum — a 24-hour intensive designed to reconnect, re-learn, and re-ignite the core adaptive tools that have shaped MTC leaders for nearly two decades.

The Media Transformation Challenge Class of 2025 gathered in New York City for four packed days of core concept deep dives, meaningful conversations, hands-on collaboration, and inspiring site visits.