Jay Newton-Small

Entrepreneur

Fellowships
Halcyon Incubator: fellow 2017
Run by the S&R Foundation, Halcyon picks eight of the most promising social enterprise start ups in America and helps them succeed. The program is an intensive five-month residency in Washington DC followed by a year of working hands on with companies.

New America Foundation: fellow 2015-2017
I’m working with the Better Life Lab to do research on the effects of narrative on end of life care. I’m also starting a second book: a memoir of my father and a look at Alzheimer’s caregiving.

Harvard’s Institute of Politics: fellow Spring 2015
As a fellow in residence I not only survived nine feet of snow, I taught a seminar based on my forthcoming book.

Awards
Winner of the 2016 Everett C. Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress for my story on the women of the Senate reaching critical mass in the 114th session and producing 75 percent of the legislation that was passed into law.

Winner of the 2016 Deadline Club award for Civic Journalism for my cover story, “How to Forgive a Killer,” on the massacre at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel church.

Winner of a 2011 Deadline Club award for civic reporting for TIME’s cover of the earthquake in Haiti.

Winner of a 2000 Emmy for spot reporting for an NBC piece on tornadoes that hit Moore, Oklahoma.

I want to change the world.

Jay Newton-Small is cofounder of MemoryWell, a startup of journalists who tell the life stories of those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia in order to improve their care. She first came up with the idea for MemoryWell when her father moved into an assisted living facility and the staff asked her to fill out a 20-page questionnaire about his life. Instead, she wrote down his story. His caregivers loved it and MemoryWell was born.

Previously, Newton-Small was Washington correspondent for TIME Magazine, where she remains a contributor.  At TIME she covered politics as well as stories on five continents from conflicts in the Middle East to the earthquake in Haiti and the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. She has written more than half a dozen TIME cover stories and interviewed numerous heads of state, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

She authored the 2016 best selling book, Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.

Before TIME, Newton-Small was a reporter for Bloomberg News, where she covered the White House and politics.

Newton-Small received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Art History from Tufts University. She is a 2017 Halcyon Incubator fellow, a 2016-2017 New America fellow and a 2015 Harvard Institute of Politics fellow. She is the 2016 winner of the prestigious Dirksen Award for congressional reporting and the 2016 Deadline Club award for community service reporting.

Washington Correspondent, TIME Magazine Co-founder MemoryWell, www.memory-well.com Author of "Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works": https://www.amazon.com/Broad-Influence-Women-Changing-America-ebook/dp/B016E1N7UI/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1465929917&sr=1-1&keywords=broad+influence