UPI Next is the media development division of United Press International. UPI Next, together with our partners and journalism mentors, is dedicated to helping student and professional journalists produce quality stories and gain the skills they need as professionals. Our work, as embodied in our Mission and Principles, first and foremost builds on the values we share as journalists.

Our platform provides one-on-one mentoring which has benefited hundreds of users submitting stories from 30 countries. Our training and evaluation methods have been developed by journalists with over two centuries of combined experience and are designed for journalists at all career levels.

Our unique position as a subsidiary of an international wire news service with an estimated 4 million views a month offers student and professional journalists participating in our programs unprecedented access to an existing distribution channel. Good content is worth little without distribution: we can offer it.

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