Susan Goldberg becomes first female president, CEO of GBH in Boston

Susan Goldberg, the previous government of Nationwide Geographic, has been named as the brand new president and CEO of GBH, making her the primary lady to guide the media firm in its 71-year historical past.

In response to GBH, Goldberg has an extended historical past of breaking glass ceilings as a lady. From 1999 to 2007, she was the primary feminine managing editor and government editor of the San Jose Mercury Information. She then went on to be the primary feminine editor of the Cleveland Plain Supplier from 2007 to 2010. After which from 2010 to 2014, grew to become the primary lady to guide the Washington, D.C., Bureau for Bloomberg Information as an en government editor earlier than coming to Nationwide Geographic.

In 2014, she grew to become the primary feminine editor of Nationwide Geographic and a yr later she added the position of editorial director. Throughout her tenure, she and her crew reinvented the newsroom by diversifying its workers, GBH stated.

Over half of Nationwide Geographic’s tales are written by girls and virtually a 3rd of the publication’s writers are folks of colour, which is up three p.c from 2015. In 2021, 5 of the 12 journal covers had been both photographed or illustrated by folks of colour, GBH stated.

“Susan is a dedicated advocate for range, fairness, and inclusion, each when it comes to the work and people doing the work, and is a robust believer within the energy of storytelling in schooling. Journalism and schooling are the keys to our future,” stated Lee Pelton, president and CEO of The Boston Basis, member of the GBH Board of Trustees, and search committee member in an announcement. “She’s charismatic and energetic and is dedicated to being a neighborhood chief.”

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She is also credited for increasing Nationwide Geographic’s protection and shifting the publication from a print-centric journal to a “digital storytelling powerhouse,” GBH stated.

Beneath Goldberg’s management, Nationwide Geographic received 11 nationwide journal awards and have become a Pulitzer Prize finalist thrice,” in line with GBH. The publication was additionally listed twice as “Webby Media Firm of the Yr.”

Goldberg additionally expanded Nationwide Geographic’s partnerships to create content material with organizations reminiscent of ABC Information, The Undefeated, ProPublica and the Nationwide Geographic Channel, GBH stated.

After main Nationwide Geographic, Goldberg went on to carry a place at Arizona State College as each their Vice Dean and as a professor of follow at their Walter Cronkite College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Goldberg’s work in feminine empowerment has garnered her a number of titles together with “management honoree” by the Worldwide Ladies’s Media Basis in 2020, GBH stated. She was additionally named one of many High Ladies in Media by Folio in 2020 and was quantity seven on the “Badass50″ record by InStyle journal in 2020.

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Goldberg’s appointment to guide GBH, comes after the Boston Globe introduced that Nancy Barnes, a former NPR government, could be the paper’s new editor. Much like Goldberg, Barnes may even be the primary lady to guide the paper.

“GBH is a trusted native and nationwide media chief, steeped in excellence, with a proud historical past of investigative journalism, groundbreaking innovation, and take care of its neighborhood,” Goldberg stated. “I’ve spent my life telling tales that make a distinction. As a journalist who’s dedicated to serving to and reflecting the communities we serve, I’m honored to be part of GBH’s subsequent chapter.”