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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.