PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 3) — The Poynter Institute is happy to announce the 26 journalists who’ve been named to the second cohort of the Public Media Editorial Integrity and Management Initiative, developed and delivered by the Poynter Institute and funded by the Company for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
This nine-month fellowship is designed to arrange public media leaders for the challenges and alternatives offered by a altering media panorama, and represents the dedication of each CPB and Poynter to native journalism.
“By way of the Editorial Integrity and Management Initiative, public media information managers are gaining helpful abilities in guiding their newsrooms and making certain moral decision-making,” stated Kathy Merritt, CPB senior vp, journalism, radio and CSG companies. “Expert, efficient editors are very important to producing content material that upholds the best editorial requirements in producing impartial reporting that informs an engaged civil society.”
Fellows include public media leaders from throughout the nation, representing a variety of station sizes and geography. A first round of 24 fellows was chosen in 2023 and educated by means of 2024.
“We’re thrilled to work with this latest cohort as they deal with upholding journalism’s highest moral and editorial requirements,” stated Sitara Nieves, Poynter’s vp of instructing and organizational technique. “Public media stations have by no means been extra necessary to native communities throughout the nation, and this fellowship will assist strengthen the flexibility of stations to ship reliable native information.”
The fellows are:
- Beau Baker, newscast editor and producer, KUNC – Group Radio for Northern Colorado (Greeley, Colorado)
- Adelyn Baxter, viewers engagement editor, KTOO Public Media (Anchorage, Alaska)
- Brendan Byrne, assistant information director, Central Florida Public Media (Orlando, Florida)
- Andrew Catalina, information editor, Maine Public (Maine)
- Corin Cates-Carney, information director, Montana Public Radio (Missoula, Montana)
- Jason deBruyn, supervising editor for digital information, NC Public Radio (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
- Tracci Dial, multimedia information director, Northwest Public Broadcasting (Pullman, Washington)
- Gabriela Fernandez, information director, KCBX Public Radio (San Luis Obispo, California)
- Ben Giles, senior editor, KJZZ (Tempe, Arizona)
- Alexander Gonzalez, senior editor, KQED (San Francisco)
- James Haddadin, investigative editor, Connecticut Public (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Kayla Hewitt, All Issues Thought of producer/editor, WAMU 88.5 (Washington, D.C.)
- Megan Kamerick, information director, KUNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- Kamila Kudelska, information director, Wyoming Public Media (Laramie, Wyoming)
- Chris Lehman, information director, KLCC (Eugene, Oregon)
- Joey Palacios, engagement producer and internship coordinator, Texas Public Radio (San Antonio, Texas)
- Gabriela Resto-Montero, managing editor, Rocky Mountain PBS (Denver)
- Edward Ronco, information director, Interlochen Public Radio (Interlochen, Michigan)
- Emily Russell, reporter and assistant information director, North Nation Public Radio (Canton, New York)
- Tom Scheck, deputy managing editor, APM Experiences (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
- Julie Sidoni, director of journalism, WVIA Public Media (Pittston, Pennsylvania)
- Sage Smiley, information director, KYUK Public Media (Bethel, Alaska)
- Ryan Van Velzer, Kentucky Public Radio managing editor, Louisville Public Media (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Andrew Villegas, information director, Colorado Public Radio (Denver)
- Kristyna Wentz-Graff, picture editor, Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland, Oregon)
- Andrew Yeager, managing editor, WBHM 90.3 (Birmingham, Alabama)
The fellows will convene this month in St. Petersburg, Florida, for a gap week of coaching, the place they are going to establish a undertaking to pursue in the course of the nine-month fellowship; take part in in-depth coaching on ethics, management and community-focused information service; and be matched with mentors and coaches.
After the in-person program, fellows will proceed taking part remotely in coaching periods, getting suggestions from different colleagues within the fellowship, and persevering with with common one-on-one teaching periods.
Coaching is led by Poynter’s Kelly McBride, senior vp and chair of the Craig Newmark Heart for Ethics and Management; Sitara Nieves, Poynter’s vp of instructing and organizational technique; and Poynter school Tony Elkins and Fernanda Camarena.
The Company for Public Broadcasting, a non-public, nonprofit company approved by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal authorities’s funding in public broadcasting. It helps help the operations of greater than 1,500 domestically managed and operated public tv and radio stations nationwide. CPB can also be the biggest single supply of funding for analysis, know-how and program improvement for public radio, tv, and associated on-line companies. For extra data, go to cpb.org.
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