WFAE’s Ju-Don Marshall recognized as a ‘Power Leader’ in North Carolina

Enterprise North Carolina journal has named Ju-Don Marshall, WFAE’s chief content material officer and govt vice chairman, as one in all North Carolina’s most influential leaders in its annual “Energy Record.”

Marshall is the one public media govt included within the media and communications class.

“Energy Record” leaders are chosen from interviews with enterprise officers, analysis and reader nominations.

Ju-Don Marshall

Marshall joined WFAE in 2017. As chief content material officer, she remodeled WFAE from a public radio station right into a multimedia group by:

• Establishing a number of digital initiatives.
• Creating partnerships to amplify voices from various communities in Charlotte.
• Main the newsroom and content material workforce to a number of awards.

In 2020, Marshall was promoted to govt vice chairman along with her duties as chief content material officer.

Earlier than becoming a member of WFAE, Marshall spent almost twenty years as an editor and govt throughout The Washington Publish’s print and digital platforms. She led or contributed to information initiatives which have earned quite a few awards together with a Pulitzer Prize, a Peabody Award and others. In 2019, she was highlighted as one in all “14 Native Information Leaders Who Are Shining Examples to the Area” by the Knight Basis.

Marshall serves on varied journalism business boards or advisory councils, together with these for the N.C. Open Authorities Coalition, the Nationwide Belief for Native Information, Higher Public, Faith Information Service, Report for America and the Heart for Journalism and Liberty.

Marshall is a graduate of Howard College and studied at Harvard College as a Nieman Fellow.