"Cox has both vantage points. She knows what it's like to search for solid ground during unstable times and what it takes to use industry shifts to propel professional growth. The she leads trains women and nonbinary leaders in ethical decision-making, difficult negotiations, cross-generational management, purposeful delegation and work-life balance - skills that could help them steer through uncertainty rather than get swept away."
"I was editor in chief of a nonprofit newsroom called The Counter, where we covered the politics of food and agriculture. We had had a good run of intensive, consistent growth, and that meant bringing in new staff. Then we were covering the pandemic, which also meant that our staff split up and went to various places across the country, so we had informal bureaus."
"I was a strategic thinker in a different way. I was focused on the product, which got us where we were, but we didn't have anything we needed to run the organization well. That included everything like negotiating professional development funds for the staff, figuring out how we were going to do paid time off, and what kind of work policies we could have as a small startup in the nonprofit news space."
Kate Cox participated in the Leadership Academy for Women in 2022 and now directs the program. She trains women and nonbinary newsroom leaders in ethical decision-making, difficult negotiations, cross-generational management, purposeful delegation, and work-life balance. Cox led The Counter during rapid growth and pandemic-driven remote work, which created informal bureaus and changing organizational structure. She lacked established processes like workflows, negotiated professional development funds, paid time off policies, and other operational systems common in startups. Cox emphasizes that investing in leadership development helps newsroom leaders use industry shifts to propel professional growth and sustain news and media organizations.
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