Our Signature Courses
RNTC's signature courses embody the expert-led, hands-on work that defines RNW Media. Built around our thematic pillars, they represent our deepest organizational knowledge — combining decades of field experience with expertise in designing impactful learning. Our signature courses offer the best, most distinctive, and most effective learning we provide.
Our Thematic Pillars
Each one of our signature courses is an expression of a specific area of expertise that RNTC has developed over decades of hands-on work. The courses sit within a thematic pillar, each addressing a distinct challenge in today's media landscape.
Media Viability
Digital transformation: Supporting media actors to navigate and leverage digital shifts for sustainable, public-interest impact.
Leadership: Strengthening business and editorial leadership in digital media, with a specific focus on advancing women and gender-diverse leaders.
Income diversification and revenue models: Building financial and economic viability for public interest media through innovative, diversified revenue strategies.
Information Integrity
Enabling reliable, rights-based, and inclusive information: Supporting new and alternative narratives with a focus on accessibility and inclusion across language, context, voices, and platform design.
Countering online disinformation and narratives: Specialised focus on gendered disinformation, narrative shift, digital safety, and advocacy on platform accountability and censorship.
Media literacy: Fostering critical media engagement for both media makers and consumers through creative methods that build awareness, perspective, and practical skills.
Gender & Media
Gender in media: Advocating for gender representation in media leadership and strengthening access to funding for women and gender-diverse public interest media organisations.
Countering anti-gender narratives: Supporting media actors to identify, expose, and counter organised disinformation targeting gender and sexual rights through strategic communication, storytelling, and campaigning.
Addressing tech-facilitated gender-based violence: Equipping media makers, advocates, and civil society organisations with tools to prevent, document, and respond to online violence, including harassment, doxxing, and image-based abuse.
Advancing inclusive and safe digital media spaces: Promoting rights-based, gender-inclusive content while advocating for platform policies that prioritise safety, accessibility, and voice for women and gender-diverse people.
Migration & Media
Strengthening capacity and agency of people on the move: Supporting people on the move through participatory storytelling and knowledge building to increase inclusion in local media spaces.
Enabling women on the move: Empowering women on the move to lead in telling their own stories and promote gender diversity in digital media spaces.
Research and advocacy for factual migration narratives: Building an evidence base, mapping harmful narratives, flagging disinformation to platforms, and fostering cross-sectoral partnerships to improve perceptions of migration.
AI & Media
AI literacy for journalists: Building foundational knowledge of how AI works, its implications for journalism, and the skills to use AI tools strategically, ethically, and effectively in newsrooms.
Countering AI-generated disinformation: Equipping media professionals to detect, verify, and respond to deepfakes, synthetic media, and AI-generated disinformation that threaten public trust.
Responsible AI adoption: Supporting media organisations to develop ethical AI strategies, editorial policies, and governance frameworks that prioritise transparency, accountability, and journalistic integrity.
Media Skills
Agency-driven storytelling: Moving beyond awareness to mobilise communities for meaningful impact through solution-based narratives and agency-oriented frames.
Digital platform affordances: Analysing and applying the unique features of digital platforms to create participatory, networked stories that drive behavioural change.
Hands-on content creation: Equipping journalists and media-makers with practical tools, case studies, and co-creative methodologies to produce pitches and stories ready for publication.
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