A Southerner to the core, Samantha Ragland is Director of Digital Content Strategy for GateHouse Media\u2019s Florida Group \u2014 responsible for growing digital audience and acumen across 22 newspaper markets through niche products, alternate business models and accessible digital training. <\/p>\n
She is a newsroom leader whose first mission is clear: to give her team wings. <\/p>\n
Samantha earned a Master\u2019s in Journalism from Syracuse University where she was a Goldring Arts Fellow and a Bachelor\u2019s in Creative Writing from Western Kentucky. She\u2019s been in the media industry since 2013, and prior to, spent nearly six years as an adjunct English professor.<\/p>\n
In 2018, she was selected as a digital media consultant for the ONA Local Speakers Bureau and has served as Poynter Guest Faculty since 2018 as well. She's an active member of and coach for digitalwomenleaders.com. She's a 2016 graduate of ONA-Poynter Women\u2019s Leadership Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2001,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Samantha","last_name":"Ragland","title":"Director, Digital Content Strategy","organization":"GateHouse Media, Florida","website":"http:\/\/sammyragland.com","twitter":"sammyragland","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\n