The Pivot Publisher Series: How to smartly build capacity and organizational design

Who do you need on your team? The hiring process can be daunting, and making the right choices about who to bring on board—and when—can have a major impact on your newsroom. In our recent conversation, Zuri Berry, The Baltimore Banner’s digital strategy editor; Lisa Snowden, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Beat; Susan Gluck Pappajohn, a talent and organizational strategy consultant; and Madeleine Bair, founding director of El Tímpano, shared their experiences and approaches to building strong teams, tips on securing funding, and more.

Resources highlighted during the discussion included:

• Introducing ‘Leavers’: results from a survey of 101 former journalists of color → https://source.opennews.org/articles/introducing-leavers-results-survey/
  
• Toward equitable models of journalism sustainability → https://www.eltimpano.org/inside-el-timpano/toward-equitable-models-of-journalism-sustainability/
  
• Airtable → https://www.airtable.com
  
• Lion Publishers → https://www.lionpublishers.com
  
• Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) → https://inn.org
  

This conversation was sponsored by the Knight Foundation.

Presenters

• Zuri Berry, The Baltimore Banner’s digital strategy editor
• Lisa Snowden, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Beat
• Susan Gluck Pappajohn, a talent and organizational strategy consultant
• Madeleine Bair, founding director of El Tímpano