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Dec 5, 2024 | 
rjionline.org | Molly Greene |Tara Francis Chan
A new guide to implementing practices that care for, and center, journalists in news organizationsThe Appeal and the Reynolds Journalism Institute are thrilled to announce a new resource for news leaders and entrepreneurs: The Care & Collaboration Toolkit. This toolkit serves as a practical resource for news organizations who want to better support their journalists and include them in the decisions that impact their lives and work.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
rjionline.org | Tara Francis Chan |Molly Greene
Making sure your fiscal sponsor, bank, HR and other partners reflect and support your cultureAs newsroom leaders, we often think a lot about how our organizations embody our values, yet we rarely expect the same from the contractors and external partners. But thoughtfully choosing who you work with when you start a newsroom is an important way to build your values into your organization’s foundation. When we first relaunched our newsroom, we needed a bank, a fiscal sponsor, and a PEO.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
rjionline.org | Tara Francis Chan |Molly Greene
Figuring out a salary model is one of a newsroom start-up’s toughest challenges, but can also be one of its most rewardingIn almost every newsroom, salaries are secretive, inequitable, and contentious. But it doesn’t have to be that way, particularly when you start a newsroom from scratch. At The Appeal, we built a transparent and equitable compensation model that works for everyone.
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May 22, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Molly Greene |Tara Francis Chan
Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2024 10:50 am Last month we shared The Appeal’s approach to working with incarcerated writers, whose contributions are essential to our newsroom’s mission of centering voices most impacted by the criminal legal system.
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May 20, 2024 | 
rjionline.org | Molly Greene |Tara Francis Chan
Extending organizational values to your freelance relationshipsLast month we shared The Appeal’s approach to working with incarcerated writers, whose contributions are essential to our newsroom’s mission of centering voices most impacted by the criminal legal system. This month, we’re talking about working with freelancers, who are equally as important to rooting our journalism in the communities we are reporting on.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Molly Greene |Tara Francis Chan
Posted Thursday, April 11, 2024 10:39 am Nearly half of all American adults have had an immediate family member incarcerated. On any given day, nearly 2 million people, disproportionately Black and brown people, are detained in U.S. jails and prisons.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
rjionline.org | Tara Francis Chan |Molly Greene
By resting when our audience rests, we ensure we can better meet their needs for the rest of the yearWith the end of the year approaching, many of our friends in journalism are facing the loathsome task of trying to find reluctant volunteers to work over the upcoming holiday closures. But for a lot of newsrooms that don’t publish daily news or employ hundreds of people, there’s another option: give everyone a break.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
inbusinessphx.com | Molly Greene
Q: What most notably stands out about your leadership style or what is an example of leadership success you can share with our readers? I love my work and am inspired by my team. In looking at how to characterize my leadership style, I think it reflects traits of a strategic leader. Our department’s mission is devoted to equipping internal and external leaders with information, strategies and perspectives to achieve SRP’s corporate objectives on behalf of our customers.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
rjionline.org | Tara Francis Chan |Molly Greene
At times of high stress, create space for listening and problem-solvingWe are very proud of The Appeal and all the ways we have built a very different kind of organization — including the ways in which we’ve enshrined team-based decision-making in our bylaws. We also take our values of self- and community care seriously and have implemented practices and policies designed to support our team.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
rjionline.org | Tara Francis Chan |Molly Greene
Give your staff the legal power to make organizational decisionsWhen The Appeal relaunched as a worker-led nonprofit newsroom in 2021, two of the first questions we had to answer were: Can we legally do this? And, if so, how? We knew there were collaboratively run nonprofits out there, so we figured there had to be a way. But we also knew that we had to comply with state and federal governance regulations, which meant we needed bylaws.
