LAS COMADRES SPEAKER SERIES: Q&A WITH AMANDA ZAMORA, CO-FOUNDER & PUBLISHER OF THE 19TH

 

My hope for the next generation, including women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ journalists, is that they have to fight less within their own news organizations to be seen and heard, to be compensated fairly and to be valued as whole people. – Amanda Zamora

Join us on Wednesday, June 29, 7pm ET and meet Amanda Zamora, Co-founder and Publisher of The 19^th .  

 

 

Inside the Asterisk: *Building Community with News that Represents

Q&A with Amanda Zamora

Co-founder and Publisher of The 19^th

  

Amanda Zamora is co-founder and publisher of The 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy. She has spent nearly two decades at the forefront of digital journalism, working as a reporter, digital producer and editor, product manager, audience strategist and fundraiser. As publisher of The 19th, Amanda leads editorial, product and business operations in pursuit of the nonprofit’s mission to empower women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community with the information, resources and community they need to be equal participants in our democracy.

 

Before helping launch The 19th in 2020, Zamora led double-digit audience gains and a 65% increase in membership revenue as chief audience officer at The Texas Tribune. Prior to the Tribune, Zamora was ProPublica’s senior engagement editor, where she helped produce Pulitzer Prize-winning projects and established the industry touchstone for crowdsourced journalism. Before that, she worked nearly eight years at The Washington Post, and managed one of the first social media teams at a major U.S. newspaper. 

 

A native of Houston, Texas, Zamora graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 with a journalism degree. 

 

 

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