The skills required of excellent journalism are not the same as the skills required of excellent management or leadership. The good news is that, with focused practice, anyone can learn to be an excellent leader.
For Instructors:
Leadership: An Introduction: Objectives, Overview, Teaching Notes, and Sample Assignments/Activities
Readings
Jennifer L. Jones Barbour
We Have a Leadership Problem
Kathleen McElroy
Building a Toolkit for Newsroom Leaders
Minette E. Drumwright, Kathleen McElroy and Carolyn McGourty Supple
Colleges Can’t Wait for Newsrooms to Fix Themselves
Lucas Beard, Jonathan Dunn, Jess Huang and Alexis Krivokovich
Shattering the Glass Screen
Gabriel Arana
Decades of failure: 17% of U.S. newsroom staff is not white
Pew Research Center
10 charts about America’s newsrooms
Barbara Kellerman
What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers
John Kotter
What Leaders Really Do
Videos
What is Ethical News Leadership?
Behavioral Ethics
Past Experience Shapes Management Style
