System/Policy
How to prepare your public media station to operate under the ‘new normal’
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Start planning how to set up operations for when staff can begin working from your station’s offices, studios and newsrooms.
Current (https://current.org/series/leadership/)
This series looks at challenges facing public media leaders and best practices for guiding their organizations through change.
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.
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.
“Effective leadership emerges at the intersection of vision and humanism.”
“So much depends on who you know, and who knows you.”
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.”