Sue Cross

Executive Director and CEO, Institute of Nonprofit News

Cross was chair of Richard Gingras’ keynote at ISOJ 2022. Watch her presentation here.

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Sue Cross leads the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of more than 360 independent, nonprofit news media organizations in North America. She joined INN in 2015 to build its emerging media network and advance social enterprise models for investigative and public service journalism. Sue is a former senior vice president for the Associated Press global news agency, where she created digital news services, expanded Spanish language and Latin American operations, introduced video to more than a thousand online news sites and managed a national news cooperative. She began her career as a reporter in Alaska and Ohio. Sue also has worked in nonprofit business development, network-building and social enterprise consulting. She serves on boards including Stanford University’s John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships and the National Advisory Council for the Emma Bowen Foundation. Sue is a graduate of Ohio State University and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.