Audrey Cooper
Editor in Chief, WNYC Public Radio
Born: 1977
Location: United States
Nationality: United States
Residence: New York City, New York
Businesses: WNYC / San Francisco Chronicle
Biography
Audrey Cooper is Editor in Chief and VP of News for WNYC/New York Public Radio, a role she assumed in July 2020. Formerly she was the editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, the first woman to fill the role in the company’s 154-year history.
Under her leadership, the Chronicle won nearly every major national journalism prize, including more than a dozen Emmy awards.
San Francisco magazine has named Audrey one of the city’s most powerful women. Editor and Publisher magazine named her one of the world’s “Top 10 Women to Watch” and Advertising Age named her one of their “Top 40 under 40.” A native of the Kansas City area, Audrey graduated magna cum laude from Boston University, which has honored her as a distinguished alumna.
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Don’t Feed the Trolls — A Transformed Workplace
Audrey Cooper talks about how tough it was when she started as the first female editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle. Miserable at the beginning, coming home crying night after night, Audrey managed to stick with it and transform the organization.
It’s the Number One Thing
Sometimes managing people is like a game of three-dimensional chess. How do you get others to support the initiatives you want to undertake? Get them pointed in the same direction and get them moving? Audrey Cooper, editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, shares what she believes is the number one thing she’s got to do as a leader.