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Editor, Brad Kane,
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News Editor, Grant Welker,
gwelker@wbjournal.com (Real estate,
higher education)
Staff Writers
Zachary Comeau,
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(Manufacturing)
Emily Micucci,
emicucci@wbjournal.com (Health care)
Contributors
Susan Shalhoub
Livia Gershon
Research Director,
Stephanie Meagher,
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Research Assistant, Heide Martin,
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Production Director, Kira Beaudoin,
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Associate Art Director,
Mitchell Hayes,
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Senior Accounts Manager
Matt Majikas,
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Custom Publishing Project Manager
Christine Juetten,
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Senior Special Accounts Manager
Mary Lynn Bosiak,
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Marketing & Events Manager
Kris Prosser, kprosser@wbjournal.com
Events & Marketing Intern
Megan Irish, events@wbjournal.com
COO, Mary Rogers,
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Accounting Manager, Valerie Clark,
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Accounting Assistant, Rae Rogers,
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Collections Manager, Raki Zwiebel,
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Human Resources, Jill Coran,
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Publisher, CEO, Peter Stanton
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Associate Publisher, Mark Murray
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President, Joseph Zwiebel
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L
ess than 40 hours before the press
deadline for our Jan. 22 issue, I
noticed we had unwittingly creat-
ed a major problem: The maga-
zine featured entirely men.
All of the sources in each of the four
feature stories were men, all the photos
for those stories were of men, all the
advice columns were from men. This
problem sprung up by happenstance: the
three reporters each compiled their sourc-
es independently; advice columns are
assigned to keep an even split among men
and women, but the Jan. 22 edition just
happened to have two from men.
One of WBJ's editorial goals is to have
diversity in its print pages: gender, race,
geography. We want our magazine to
reflect the entire Central Massachusetts
business community, where women
make up 49 percent of the workforce.
This is important to capture the best sto-
ries, best advice and greatest intelligence
of our community. We can't do that by
relying on half the population.
In this issue, News Editor Grant
Welker unveils the first part of this
three-part series called The Boardroom
Gap, examining the lack of gender diver-
sity in business leadership. The findings
aren't all that surprising: Women make
up 33 percent of the region's business
leadership, with nonprofits raising the
curve while public firms lag behind.
These circumstances are largely creat-
ed by the same historical dynamic which
leads to men filling up a disproportion-
ate share of WBJ's articles and photos: A
generation ago, men made up a larger
portion of the workforce and leadership
positions and continue to ascend to
power. Sticking by the maxim, "The best
person gets the job" leads to the people
with the more traditional experience and
career path – a candidate pool skewing
male – getting the job. This philosophy
ignores the dynamic people with varying
backgrounds and less traditional skill
sets bring. If diversity is important to
your organization, then you have to pri-
oritize it come decision time.
As we were faced with our own gender
problem in the Jan. 22 issue, I eschewed
my traditional content approach of let-
The definition of insanity
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A division of:
NEWS & ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTS
4 Central Mass. In Brief
5 Flash Poll
10 The Boardroom Gap, a three-part series
16 Focus on Banking & Finance
20 The List: Top banks
21 Know How
22 On the Move
24 Photo Finish
25 Opinion
26 Shop Talk: Andrew Langlois, BizHelm
8 Leading with care
UMass Memorial bids farewell to retired
President Patrick Muldoon, who turned
around a struggling financial behemoth.
18 Tax savings
Central Mass. companies are praising the
new federal tax law and eying local
investment, but many questions are
unanswered.
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ting the chips fall where they may, to
focus on adding more women in the parts
of the edition still under development:
Central Mass. In Brief, the Viewpoint col-
umn, Movers & Shakers photos. The issue
was better as a result.
- Brad Kane, editor
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CORRECTION: In the publication "Fact Book: Doing Business In
Central Massachusetts" the property tax rates for the region's
communities were listed as percentages for every $100 in property
valuation, instead of the correct $1,000. Also in Fact Book, the
average net worth for communities was listed as a resident's
average, instead of the correct household averages.
