ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 9, 2024) — The Poynter Institute is happy to announce the 30 journalists chosen for 2024’s third and closing Leadership Academy for Women in Media cohort.
They arrive from 16 states plus Washington, D.C., in addition to the Netherlands and Canada. They symbolize the total information spectrum: digital information organizations; legacy and public media; broadcast, visible, engineering, viewers and group; and native and nonprofit information.
That is the third of Poynter’s three management academies for girls and nonbinary leaders this 12 months. Two earlier cohorts met in March and Could. Contributors for all three teams have been chosen on the similar time and positioned into a selected cohort designed to generate wealthy and various group dynamics. Together with these 30, Poynter will prepare greater than 90 newsroom leaders via this transformative program in 2024, and enhance the alumni community for this program to greater than 650.
“Poynter’s Management Academy for Ladies in Media presents time and house for these completed newsroom leaders to concentrate on their management targets for themselves, their groups and their audiences,” mentioned Sitara Nieves, Poynter vice chairman of instructing and organizational technique. “We’re thrilled to welcome this latest cohort to Poynter, and know they’ll depart with a group of advisers and pals who will help them within the years forward.”
Poynter designed the Leadership Academy for Women in Media in 2015 to diversify the ranks of people that lead the media trade.
“This will likely sound minor, however generally the largest discovery a cohort member makes is that they’re not alone within the management challenges they’re going through, ” academy director Kate Cox mentioned. “I like to inform every group on day one, ‘The breakthrough, answer or perception you want is correct right here on this room, in one in every of these clever minds.’ We’ll construct the sorts of newsrooms we wish to work in collectively, as a group.”
Read a conversation about career management with Management Academy for Ladies in Media Director Kate Cox and program alumni Zainab Shah, Jin Ding and Erika Hobbs.
Welcome to the latest Management Academy for Ladies in Media cohort:
- Karen Anderson, director of radio programming, Vermont Public
- Martha Asencio-Rhine; picture director, initiatives and options; Tampa Bay Occasions
- Margaret Beidelman; deputy director of visuals, video; San Francisco Chronicle
- Karen Bonar, editor and writer, Ellsworth County Unbiased-Reporter
- Maria Martha Bruno de Arruda, communications coordinator, Agencia Pública
- Barbara Chai; deputy of technique and operations, tradition division; The New York Occasions
- Kiran Chitanvis, government producer, Flint Sparks Media
- Meghan Coyle; assistant assigning editor, journey; NerdWallet
- Lindsay Deutsch; senior supervisor, programming workforce; The Atlanta Journal-Structure
- Maureen Feighan, deputy metro editor, The Detroit Information
- Andrea Firestone Kaletta, information content material supervisor, KSDK-TV
- Samantha Fischer, government digital producer, KARE-TV
- Jodie Fleischer; managing editor, investigative content material and collaborations; Cox Media Group
- Karlijn Goossen, style coordinator, NPO (Dutch Nationwide Public Service Media)
- Patricia Guerra; senior producer, race and tradition; Nightline, ABC Information
- Ashley Hebler, engineering supervisor, The Texas Tribune
- Eileen Imada; senior managing producer, On Level; WBUR
- Rasheedah Jackson, editor-in-chief, Our Occasions Newspaper
- Jazzmine Jackson, viewers editor, MinnPost
- Teresa Mahoney, managing producer of video, The Oregonian/OregonLive
- Meg Ely; managing editor, viewers growth; Bloomberg Information
- Kassandra Navarro, deputy viewers editor, ProPublica
- Stefania Orru, director of manufacturing, Eater/Vox Media
- Brittany Ruff, senior producer, MSNBC
- Nora Simon, deputy multiplatform modifying chief, The Washington Put up
- MaryJane Slaby, bureau chief, Chalkbeat Indiana
- Religion Smith, senior director of occasions, The nineteenth Information
- Tanya Springer; senior supervisor, technique/development; CBC Podcasts
- Alexis Stephens, director of communications, ProPublica
- Emily Swanson, director of public opinion analysis, The Related Press
College and coaches embody Maria Carrillo, Dalia Colón, Kate Cox, Sherri Day and Kristen Hare. These chosen for Poynter’s 2024 Leadership Academy for Women in Media handed via a aggressive overview course of led by program alumni.
Purposes for the 2025 program are scheduled to open Sept. 17, 2024.
Poynter thanks the John S. and James L. Knight Basis and Newmark Philanthropies for his or her longstanding help of this program.
