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Charlotte observer1/10/2024 ![]() We have more than a dozen partners in addition to the content that we produce. And we treat it as such with big photos and in-depth reporting and graphics and videos and things of that nature, trying to be multi-dimensional. We take up a considerable amount of space in the paper to tell stories that we feel are important and interesting. In terms of what we're doing at the paper, we did launch what we call "reimagined print." We do twice-a-week deeper storytelling on things that are of interest to readers. It's really, really good to be back here. It's it's my favorite place that I've ever lived. Tell us what you meant by that and also what made you want to come back to Charlotte to be the editor here?Ĭash: I love Charlotte. Glenn: Well, when you came to the Observer as the editor, you talked a lot about reimagining the paper. And so it was a good time to make that transition and I began working in news in Louisville and then eventually took over as the executive editor of the Savannah Morning News. There was a lot going on in the country and I felt that I had a lot more to offer, as a leader, that reached beyond sports. So then I got back into the news side in Louisville, and it just felt like the right time between the pandemic, Breonna Taylor had been killed, George Floyd had been killed. I'd actually transitioned out of sports earlier in my career for about four or five years when I worked in Atlanta. And I immediately began to do news editing. And the other folks on the staff recognized that. But I knew that I had a lot more to offer than just sports. There was a moment there right at the height of the pandemic, when all of sports shut down and there were no games being played or anything going on. ![]() I was in Louisville at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where I was the sports editor. Glenn: So when did you switch from sports reporting to hard news?Ĭash: It started during the pandemic. But we had some folks to look up to Claire Smith, who was just a legend in sports writing, a Black woman and had done so much and was someone that I could look up to and admire. That may not have always been the case from those on the outside - in terms of readers and the criticism that you would get, the sexism, the racism, etc. But I was welcomed and, you know, supported by other journalism colleagues. There just weren't very many people who looked like me. I was often one of few people of color and one of few women in press boxes when I covered SEC football, you know, traveling all around the Southeast. Gwendolyn Glenn: As a sports reporter and sports editor, what was it like being a woman and a Black woman in an area where you oftentimes didn't see a lot of women - period - covering sports and also Black women?Ĭash: At the time when I was doing it, I believe I was the first Black women to cover the Masters (Tournament) in Augusta. And next thing you know, I was a sports reporter, then a sports editor and launched into a long-time sports career before transitioning to news. And so I started interviewing my teammates and coaches and athletes in the cafeteria with me. Rana Cash: I started out in sports journalism - just kind of a fluke in a way, being on an athletic team. In her first interview since joining the Charlotte Observer, she talks about her vision for the paper and her start in journalism while on a track scholarship at Florida A&M University. Before that, she covered Georgia Tech football and basketball for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. From 2010 to 2016, she was deputy editor of the Charlotte-based Sporting News magazine. This isn’t Cash’s first rodeo in Charlotte. Cash comes to Charlotte from Georgia, where she was executive editor of the Savannah Morning News. She’s the first Black person to hold that position in the paper’s 136-year history. It’s been almost a year since Rana Cash was named executive editor of the Charlotte Observer.
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