Media Moves

MinnPost hires Jackson as audience editor

The following excerpt was sent out from minnpost.com:

Jazzmine Jackson

We’re excited to announce that Jazzmine Jackson, a digital reporter at KELOLAND News in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will join our newsroom on May 15 to lead audience development and engagement efforts and ensure our best journalism is reaching people and equipping them to make positive change in their communities.

The audience editor position is a newly created leadership position to help MinnPost maintain and grow readership, surface new story ideas and sources, and build trust with the audiences and the communities we cover.

Since 2020, Jackson has been helping KELOLAND reach digital audiences wherever they are through engaging headlines, visuals and copy on social media and the KELOLAND website.

Jackson is returning to the state where she earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of St. Thomas. She also holds a master’s in cinematography from DePaul University.

Mariam Ahmed

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