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How are you doing? I want to know how The Cohort can better serve you during this outrageous year. Please, please take a few moments to fill out this five-question survey to give me and my team some insight into your work and life these days. You also could be the lucky person who randomly wins 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