Current (https://current.org/series/leadership/)
This series looks at challenges facing public media leaders and best practices for guiding their organizations through change.
Spending time building relationships with your staff and engaging on their turf will change how they look at you. They’ll recognize you as someone who is devoted not just to vision, but to their success.
Start planning how to set up operations for when staff can begin working from your station’s offices, studios and newsrooms.
Jill Geisler and Cathy Trost, co-creators of the Newseum’s training program for media leaders, describe their approach for building a workplace culture of respect, trust and integrity.
Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | The two-year project will train 100 editors to “strengthen their ability to lead public media’s growing newsrooms,” CPB said.
Defining the work your station does in specific terms simplifies decisions and creates a framework for staff to understand how and why their jobs matter.
Julie Drizin, Executive Director | “Effective leadership emerges at the intersection of vision and humanism.”
April Simpson, Former Associate Editor | “So much depends on who you know, and who knows you.”
Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | Upcoming initiatives include a two-year training program from CPB for newsroom leaders.
A retiring CEO shares lessons from her career on the frontlines of building revenue.
“I believe the day is coming when public media leaders move to address problematic workplace experiences as they’re happening — or, even better, before they happen. But this must start with each individual.”