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Announcing the 30 journalists selected for Poynter’s final 2024 Leadership Academy for Women in Media cohort [1]

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Date: 2024-09-09 17:23:27+00:00

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 9, 2024) — The Poynter Institute is pleased to announce the 30 journalists selected for 2024’s third and final Leadership Academy for Women in Media cohort.

They come from 16 states plus Washington, D.C., as well as the Netherlands and Canada. They represent the full news spectrum: digital news organizations; legacy and public media; broadcast, visual, engineering, audience and community; and local and nonprofit news.

This is the third of Poynter’s three leadership academies for women and nonbinary leaders this year. Two previous cohorts met in March and May. Participants for all three groups were selected at the same time and placed into a specific cohort designed to generate rich and diverse group dynamics. Including these 30, Poynter will train more than 90 newsroom leaders through this transformative program in 2024, and increase the alumni network for this program to more than 650.

“Poynter’s Leadership Academy for Women in Media offers time and space for these accomplished newsroom leaders to focus on their leadership goals for themselves, their teams and their audiences,” said Sitara Nieves, Poynter vice president of teaching and organizational strategy. “We’re thrilled to welcome this newest cohort to Poynter, and know they will leave with a community of advisers and friends who will support them in the years ahead.”

Poynter designed the Leadership Academy for Women in Media in 2015 to diversify the ranks of people who lead the media industry.

“This may sound minor, but sometimes the biggest discovery a cohort member makes is that they’re not alone in the leadership challenges they’re facing, ” academy director Kate Cox said. “I like to tell each group on day one, ‘The breakthrough, solution or insight you need is right here in this room, in one of these wise minds.’ We’ll build the kinds of newsrooms we want to work in together, as a community.”

Read a conversation about career management with Leadership Academy for Women in Media Director Kate Cox and program alumni Zainab Shah, Jin Ding and Erika Hobbs.

Welcome to the newest Leadership Academy for Women in Media cohort:

Karen Anderson , director of radio programming, Vermont Public

Martha Asencio-Rhine ; photo director, projects and features; Tampa Bay Times

Margaret Beidelman ; deputy director of visuals, video; San Francisco Chronicle

Karen Bonar , editor and publisher, Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter

Maria Martha Bruno de Arruda , communications coordinator, Agencia Pública

Barbara Chai ; deputy of strategy and operations, culture department; The New York Times

Kiran Chitanvis , executive producer, Flint Sparks Media

Meghan Coyle ; assistant assigning editor, travel; NerdWallet

Lindsay Deutsch ; senior manager, programming team; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Maureen Feighan , deputy metro editor, The Detroit News

Andrea Firestone Kaletta , news content manager, KSDK-TV

Samantha Fischer , executive digital producer, KARE-TV

Jodie Fleischer ; managing editor, investigative content and collaborations; Cox Media Group

Karlijn Goossen , genre coordinator, NPO (Dutch National Public Service Media)

Patricia Guerra ; senior producer, race and culture; Nightline, ABC News

Ashley Hebler , engineering manager, The Texas Tribune

Eileen Imada ; senior managing producer, On Point; WBUR

Rasheedah Jackson , editor-in-chief, Our Times Newspaper

Jazzmine Jackson , audience editor, MinnPost

Teresa Mahoney , managing producer of video, The Oregonian/OregonLive

Meg Ely ; managing editor, audience development; Bloomberg News

Kassandra Navarro , deputy audience editor, ProPublica

Stefania Orru , director of production, Eater/Vox Media

Brittany Ruff , senior producer, MSNBC

Nora Simon , deputy multiplatform editing chief, The Washington Post

MaryJane Slaby , bureau chief, Chalkbeat Indiana

Faith Smith , senior director of events, The 19th News

Tanya Springer ; senior manager, strategy/growth; CBC Podcasts

Alexis Stephens , director of communications, ProPublica

Emily Swanson , director of public opinion research, The Associated Press

Faculty and coaches include Maria Carrillo, Dalia Colón, Kate Cox, Sherri Day and Kristen Hare. Those chosen for Poynter’s 2024 Leadership Academy for Women in Media passed through a competitive review process led by program alumni.

Applications for the 2025 program are scheduled to open Sept. 17, 2024.

Poynter thanks the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Newmark Philanthropies for their longstanding support of this program.

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