Superpowers: The Digital Skills Media Leaders Say Newsrooms Need Going Forward

Mark Stencel is co-director of the Duke Reporters’ Lab and a visiting lecturer in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of a 2015 American Press Institute report on the impact of political fact-checking (http://bit.ly/factcheckthis) and co-author of “The Goat Must Be Fed,” a 2014 Reporters’ Lab study of newsroom obstacles to digital innovation (http://goatmustbefed.com). He previously was NPR’s managing editor for digital news and held senior management positions at The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly. He also covered science and technology for The News & Observer in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. He began his career as an assistant to Washington Post political columnist David S. Broder. He is the board chair for the Student Press Law Center and an advisory board member for Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism in Macon, Georgia.

Kim Perry is a senior editor on the Digital Transition team at the New York Times. Previously she was director of Editorial Coaching and Development at NPR, where she led multi-platform training and newsroom strategy efforts at public media newsrooms across the country. Between 2008 and 2013, she headed up two digital training initiatives funded by the Knight Foundation — first for NPR staff and management, and then for public media member stations. Before coming to NPR, she worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune and SignOnSanDiego.com as a content producer and newsroom trainer. She’s previously reported for the Associated Press in Alaska, The Modesto Bee and other Bay Area newspapers. She is a 2006 graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.