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This series looks at challenges facing public media leaders and best practices for guiding their organizations through change.

Frequency Boost

To create space for great ideas to blossom, set aside 10% of your work week

By Eric Nuzum, Co-Founder (Magnificent Noise) | April 26, 2021

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.  

System/Policy

How to prepare your public media station to operate under the ‘new normal’

By Dave Edwards, Consultant (Dave Edwards Media) | April 21, 2020

Start planning how to set up operations for when staff can begin working from your station’s offices, studios and newsrooms.

System/Policy

‘We needed to work to change the culture of media organizations’

By Helen Barrington, Chief Creative Officer (Whiskey Lane Productions) | November 13, 2018

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.

Quick Takes

Arizona’s Cronkite School will manage CPB’s editorial leadership training

By Dru Sefton Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | October 26, 2018

The two-year project will train 100 editors to “strengthen their ability to lead public media’s growing newsrooms,” CPB said.

System/Policy

Why a mantra is the best gift for a creative team

By Eric Nuzum, Co-Founder (Magnificent Noise) | October 23, 2018

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.

About Current

Letter from the executive editor: What does pubmedia need from its leaders?

By Julie Drizin Julie Drizin, Executive Director | October 22, 2018

“Effective leadership emerges at the intersection of vision and humanism.”

System/Policy

After ‘transformative’ experience in executive training, leadership fellows face scarcity of jobs

By April Simpson April Simpson, Former Associate Editor | October 15, 2018

“So much depends on who you know, and who knows you.”

System/Policy

Training opportunities for ‘rising stars’ aiming for executive ranks are growing

By Dru Sefton Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | October 12, 2018

Upcoming initiatives include a two-year training program from CPB for newsroom leaders.

System/Policy

Diverse revenue streams for stations depend on agility, board support

By Kathleen Pavelko, CEO (WITF) | October 11, 2018

A retiring CEO shares lessons from her career on the frontlines of building revenue.

System/Policy

Culture that enables harassment demands direct response from pubmedia leaders

By Deanna Martin Mackey, President (Public Television Major Market Group) | October 10, 2018

“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.”

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