ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. (Oct. 16, 2024) — In partnership with the Company for Public Broadcasting, the Poynter Institute is happy to announce a brand new six-month fellowship that can strengthen the management and editorial excellence of public media station managers.
The Executive Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative will supply native public media executives who oversee stations with native newsrooms the chance to strengthen their editorial and enterprise capability. It should equip station managers with the imaginative and prescient and assist they should uphold public media’s highest editorial requirements and advance the targets for each a part of their station — greenlighting innovation, creating efficient partnerships, managing budgets, imposing editorial firewalls and fostering a high-performing, strong tradition that prioritizes institutional evolution and progress.
“Over the previous decade, public media stations have added nearly a thousand full- and part-time journalists, totaling 4,400 journalists as we speak at stations,” stated Kathy Merritt, CPB’s senior vice chairman of radio, journalism and neighborhood service grants. “At a time when the craft of journalism is below elevated scrutiny, it’s vital that public media common managers have the assist and experience wanted to steer native newsrooms in a quickly altering media setting.”
This new fellowship seeks to coach 50 public media executives in two cohorts of 25 — one in 2025 and one in 2026.
Station managers will work with Poynter’s skilled instructors and coaches, beginning with an in-person week at Poynter in St. Petersburg, Florida, adopted by digital trainings each different week through the six-month program.
Fellows will study from and assist each other, creating bonds that final past the lifetime of this system. They may develop their moral decision-making expertise and management skills.
Every participant will create an government management motion plan drawn from their technique and imaginative and prescient for his or her information group and knowledgeable by a variety of instruments, frameworks and training that begins through the in-person week at Poynter.
“We hope to higher equip these leaders with the data, instruments and greatest practices to assist them lead their stations as we speak and into the long run,” stated Kerwin Speight, Poynter management school. “Because the media panorama modifications, station managers want assist to adapt, alter and successfully lead.”
CPB has lengthy supported strengthening public media management, together with a earlier Editorial Integrity and Management Initiative for public media information managers and editors, which Poynter has led since 2023.
The success of the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative program helped inform this initiative, designed particularly for station managers.
Purposes for the primary cohort of Executive Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative shut Friday, Dec. 6. Chosen individuals shall be notified in January and convene in St. Petersburg for 5 days, April 28 by means of Could 2.
Purposes for the second cohort will launch in 2025.
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