Media Moves

ProPublica makes changes to its audience team

The following excerpt was sent out ProPublica:

ProPublica announced on Thursday a series of changes for the audience team, including the hiring of Kassandra Navarro as deputy audience editor, the move of Kengo Tsutsumi to the newly created role of partnerships editor and the hiring of Sophia Kovatch as audience editor for search.

Kassandra Navarro

Navarro joins ProPublica from Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she served as the director of audience development overseeing audience growth and engagement, community outreach, product strategy and membership. She was previously the founding social editor at The 19th and has worked with numerous other nonprofit news organizations, including the Houston Landing, Southerly and Futuro Media Group. Before stepping into the world of journalism, she worked in digital and social strategy in the nonprofit and public sectors for more than 10 years, most notably leading digital at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Navarro is based in Texas. She began May 1.

Sophia Kovatch

Since joining ProPublica in September 2022, Kovatch has focused on making ProPublica’s work more visible to users and search algorithms. She joined the organization from ClearVoice, a marketing agency with a focus on content creation, where she served as an SEO editor. Before that, she worked as an SEO strategist for Inseev Interactive.

Kengo Tsutsumi

Tsutsumi is moving to be partnerships editor to shape the organization’s strategy with publishing partnerships, especially with local television and emerging platforms. Tsutsumi joined ProPublica as a deputy audience editor in 2018 from the news startup Mic, where he served as an editorial director.

Mariam Ahmed

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