Marie Gilot is the Executive Director of J+, the professional training arm of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, home of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership and other programs. J+ empowers journalists and media professionals in all phases of their career, focusing on the business side of news, better leadership and product thinking. Marie started her career as a newspaper reporter in El Paso, Texas, covering the U.S.-Mexico border and was a program officer at the Knight Foundation in Miami. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism from the City College of New York and master\u2019s degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso and Princeton University, as well as a certificate in climate change from the University of Pennsylvania. Since the pandemic, she does her own nails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11692,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Marie","last_name":"Gilot","title":"J+ Executive Director","organization":"Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY","website":"","twitter":"louiegilot","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":""},"event":[98],"class_list":["post-11398","ona_speaker","type-ona_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-ona23"],"yoast_head":"\n