Who Is Marcia Parker? Scribe Joins The Times As Director of Philanthropic Partnerships

Marcia Parker has been named vice president of philanthropic relationships at The New York Times. She will oversee a team formed in 2019 to pursue foundation-funded and nonprofit-partnered newsroom activities.

Parker will collaborate with newsroom executives to enhance early career programmes and launch journalism initiatives in collaboration with organisations and foundations with similar public-service missions. She will also assist with the management of the current philanthropic newsroom programmes, such as Headway and the disability journalism fellowship.

She will join The Times after more than five years as the publisher and CEO of CalMatters, a nonpartisan and nonprofit journalism organisation that covers California and its state government. People are now wondering who she is after the news broke, and here is everything we know about her.

Who is Marcia Parker?

- Her master's degree was conferred by Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. In 2018, she completed Harvard University's Executive Education Program in Exponential Fundraising. In 2020, the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University will be open to media executives.

- She also serves on the Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowships selection committee and has lectured at Northwestern University's San Francisco campus.

- She became a publisher and COO of CalMatters in 2017 and was in charge of the foundation and institutional revenue. She co-managed business operations for a small news organisation that has grown to 55 employees and an annual budget of $8.6 million, owing to the support of dozens of important organisations and donors.

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- She led CalMatters during a period when the organisation was winning awards from organisations such as the Online News Association, the Society of Environmental Material, and the National Press Club, and she championed campaigns to distribute CalMatters news to over 250 media partners.

- Before joining CalMatters, she worked as the Editorial Director for Patch's West Coast local news sites, as well as the launch manager for CIR's California Watch site and as an Assistant Dean at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

- Her previous positions as an assistant dean at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, as well as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University's San Francisco campus and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, have provided her with academic experience.

- She also served on the Emma Bowen Foundation, Latino Media Collaborative, Mosaic Journalism Program, and El Timpano in Oakland, as well as the Institute for Nonprofit News' advisory boards.