Media Shaping the Narrative with Oseye Boyd and Amanda Kingsbury
Happy Women's History Month from MORE! We are celebrating by talking to women in various sectors about who inspires them, why they love what they do, and how they can save space for other women to join them at the table. Today we are joined by Oseye Boyd, Editor-in-Chief, and Amanda Kingsbury, Managing Editor of Innovation at Mirror Indy, a non-profits news publication organization based in Indianapolis. Their mission is to provide community-based journalism that informs and empowers Indianapolis residents to shape their city for the better. We discuss their career journeys in journalism, women in history that have inspired them to report the truth, and how Mirror Indy works to tell stories about fully dimensional women and people in their orbit. Join us on Patreon to Dig Deeper into why media shapes the narrative on women throughout history.
Meet our guests: A veteran journalist with more than 25 years of experience, Oseye (pronounced O-she-uh) Boyd is editor-in-chief of Mirror Indy, a nonprofit news organization created to fill gaps in local news coverage in Indianapolis. Before joining Mirror Indy, Oseye was public engagement editor for the IndyStar. As public engagement editor, Oseye spearheaded the creation of the Black Community Advisory Council, which helped IndyStar provide better coverage to the Black community, and launched the podcast, Voices of the Community, which highlighted those working behind the scenes to make Indianapolis and Indiana a better place for all. She was formerly editor of the Indianapolis Recorder newspaper and Indiana Minority Business Magazine. This was Oseye’s second stint at the Recorder and a homecoming of sorts, as she began her professional career there in 2001 when she became a full-time reporter. In what could also be considered a homecoming for Oseye, she left the Recorder in 2002 and returned to work at her hometown newspaper, The Star Press in Muncie. This time, though, Oseye wasn’t a part-time copy clerk for The Star Press — the position she held during her college years at Ball State University — but a full-time reporter. During her decade at The Star Press, Oseye was an education reporter, general assignment reporter, features writer and editor of the entertainment magazine, All Access. In addition, Oseye is an adjunct professor at the Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism and Creative Media at Butler University, and she appears monthly on Indiana Week in Review. She also served as a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2024. Outside of journalism, Oseye is a certified Body Pump instructor. Les Mills Body Pump is a low-weight, high-repetition strength-training class.
Amanda Kingsbury is the managing editor of innovation at Mirror Indy and the co-founder of Indy Maven. She's an experienced, award-winning journalist who has worked in newsrooms in four states, covering everything from crime and courts to fashion and travel. Some of her favorite on-the-job memories are spending an afternoon in a dressing room with Diane Von Furstenberg, nine days covering a Harley ride from San Diego to Milwaukee, and a year doing cartwheels in public places. She took a five-year break from journalism, serving as the editor in chief of Newfields magazine and as the marketing and communications director for the Indy Arts Council. She is glad to have a second act at Mirror Indy, a nonprofit local news site launched in December 2023.
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