Blair Hickman (she/her/hers)

Consultant & Coach
Ida Media

Blair Hickman is a media executive, consultant and coach with deep expertise in audience-first innovation, strategy and culture. She spent 15 years in fast-growing newsrooms like Vox, The Marshall Project and ProPublica, where she led numerous strategic pivots, piloted innovative audience and content strategies that led to significant growth and loyalty, and built resilient, entrepreneurial teams. At Vox, she built a groundbreaking consumer revenue program and drove strategic planning. She is also a co-founder of Going Solo, where she helps journalists launch sustainable, creator-model independent ventures. She has degrees from Brown, NYU's Studio20 and was a 2025 Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia University. She speaks on much of the above, and has taught at Medill, Columbia, NYU, USC and CUNY.

Presentation(s):

• Going Solo: Creator Journalist Workshop (By Application)

  Saturday, September 13, 2025
  10:00 AM - 2:00 PM CDT