You’ve said time and again that you read The Cohort to get practical, relevant advice about your work and tap into an authentic community of other women in digital media. Well, the nature of work has changed dramatically this year — and the journalism industry has seemingly never been more tumultuous. 

How are you doing? How can The Cohort best serve you during this time? Please take a few moments to fill out this survey to give me and my team some insight into your work and life these days. One lucky respondent will receive a $100 Amazon gift card. 
 

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Thank you for taking the time to reflect on your year. If that exercise brings you down, here are a few Cohort columns that inspire me to get back up:

• What to do when your career path is uncharted territory, by Masuma Ahuja. (“Your adaptability is an asset.”) 
   
• How to keep your sanity as you dismantle the status quo in newsrooms, by Becca Aaronson. (“Learn to say no” with the referral, the deferral, the trade-off and the hard pass.)
   
• I learned three lessons about newsroom diversity 30 years ago. They still apply, by Susan Smith Richardson. (“It’s not about you; it’s about the work … It’s not about you; it’s about policies ... It’s not about you; it’s about newsroom leadership.”)
   
• What to do when you don’t know what to do, by Adrienne Green. (“Knowing everything is an impossible bar to clear.”)

— Mel Grau, editor, The Cohort