SuperVision

I'm writing this post in a beautiful conference center in Frederiksdal, Denmark. Large windows overlook the water, where canoes, ducks and swans paddle by. @@INSERT|RESOURCE|103412|EMBED@@ The Danish meals are both wonderful and bountiful; well worth the workouts I'll have to do in penance.

Kenny Irby, Kelly McBride and I are winding down a week of teaching in The Poynter Sommerskole. This summer school is designed for Scandinavian reporters, visual journalists and newsroom managers. Fortunately for the faculty, the participants are fluent in English - often one of several languages they speak. 

Kelly's been teaching reporting and ethical decision-making. Her focus has been effective storytelling on any platform and thoughtful processes for connecting with communities. Kenny's handled multi-media storytelling, online advances, visual thinking and diversity. As always, he's a champion for visual thinking across the entire news organization, not just those whose titles include the words photo, video or design. 

I've tackled the hot supervision topics: conflict resolution, collaboration, and the management of change, time and even bosses.

I'm celebrating a pretty cool anniversary. In August, I hit the 10-year mark at Poynter, teaching leadership and management to journalists from around the world.

I love sharing ideas from leadership research and theory. But just as important, I teach from the personal experience of one who was launched into newsroom management many years ago, at the tender age of 27. I had no training, no guidebook. I tell classes that I teach from all my mistakes. With that inventory, I figure I can go another decade without running out of material!

Here's a gift -- a good news update from the world of journalism.

The problem: Back in 2002, the Asian American Journalists Association released a study documenting the underrepresentation Asian-American men in television news. Women outnumbered men in newsrooms and in journalism school classrooms, too.

The volunteers: A team of AAJA members, men and women led by Randall Yip, a TV news producer at KGO in San Francisco. They decided to take on the challenge by using the power of what they know best -- visual storytelling.