Founded in 2007, the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change is a network of emerging media leaders and practitioners who work collaboratively to support innovative media responses to pressing social challenges.
Every summer, the Media Academy convenes at Salzburg Global Seminar to design media innovations supported by peers and mentors worldwide. The Media Academy is focused on cultivating this network through dynamic media literacy training and partnerships with external organizations.
For over 18 years, the Media Academy has been gathering aspiring media leaders, innovators, and storytellers to engage in an immersive experience designed to build supportive networks for innovation in media.
The program's success is built on the premise that bringing together groups of committed and driven people to learn, collaborate, and engage in dynamic media creation projects can build and sustain committed leaders in media fields.
The faculty and practitioners from diverse media and tech fields provide media and digital literacy training, support, and capacity and offer pipelines for participants to grow in their field.
Since our founding, we have hosted over 1,000 Fellows and created a strong ecosystem of young media innovators. Fellows have moved into senior leadership positions in journalism, media, NGOs, public relations, policy, governmental positions, and related industries. Others have become leading researchers, artists, and practitioners.
Faculty have collaborated on numerous book projects, creative film and media projects, global research initiatives, and institutional partnerships and exchanges. Outcomes from the Media Academy- reports, field guides, playbooks, and learning content- have been implemented in schools, governments, news organizations, and other sectors in over 60 countries.
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