{"id":217541,"date":"2023-06-29T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/?p=217541"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:03:00","slug":"samantha-matsumoto-joins-lion-publishers-as-our-community-engagement-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/samantha-matsumoto-joins-lion-publishers-as-our-community-engagement-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Matsumoto joins LION Publishers as our Community Engagement Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><em>Samantha will facilitate peer learning and relationship building across our LION membership<\/em><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We regularly hear from our LION members about how valuable it is to connect with other founders and news leaders who are trying to build sustainable independent news businesses. Learning from peers\u2019 experiences, combating leader loneliness and commiserating with others who are up against similar challenges are core to LION\u2019s membership offerings, and we\u2019re thrilled to have Samantha Matsumoto designing and executing a strategy to help us better do this work. Her work will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Managing LION\u2019s in-person events, including this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/2023-southeast-news-sustainability-meetup.paperform.co\/\">Southeast News Sustainability Meetup<\/a> and LION Awards Ceremony<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitating connections and conversations in our News Entrepreneur Community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Designing more peer-to-peer learning opportunities for members based on their questions and emerging needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha was most recently at Minnesota Public Radio, where she worked on the daily call-in talk show \u201cMPR News with Angela Davis.\u201d Prior to that she was a producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting\u2019s talk show \u201cThink Out Loud,\u201d where she worked closely with Oregon community leaders to strengthen relationships between the community and OPB. She is also a former board member of the Asian American Journalists Association Portland chapter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she loves to swim and paddleboard in the state\u2019s many lakes. As a Pacific Northwest transplant, she is enjoying exploring the Midwest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us in welcoming Samantha to the LION team \u2014 you can reach her at <a href=\"mailto:samanthamatsumoto@lionpublishers.com\">samanthamatsumoto@lionpublishers.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha will facilitate peer learning and relationship building across our LION membership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":217544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,1650,2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[182],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2.png",2000,1250,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2-300x188.png",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2-768x480.png",768,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2-1024x640.png",1024,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2-1536x960.png",1536,960,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Samantha-headshot-2.png",2000,1250,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Samantha will facilitate peer learning and relationship building across our LION membership<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/category\/news\/announcements\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Announcements<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/category\/announcements-2\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Announcements<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"LION Publishers","url":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/author\/opslionpublishers-com\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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