We might have job-hopped our way there, gotten promoted into it, stumbled into a small company that grew and we grew up with it — however it happened, we’re here. We think. In private conversations with other “middles” we all admit we have no idea what the fuck we are doing. There is no template for this place. These companies, these jobs, these challenges, they didn’t exist before.
P. Kim Bui is the director of audience innovation at the Arizona Republic. A native Iowan, she’s focused her career on leading real-time news initiatives and creating new storytelling forms for digital, print and broadcast companies catering to local, national and global audiences. Prior, she was editor-at-large for NowThis News, focusing on original, breaking news reporting. She was also deputy managing editor for reported.ly, a digital startup focused in social journalism. She’s spoken on digital journalism and leadership at universities and conferences worldwide and written about empathy in journalism for a number of research outlets.
