New York Media Matters – and Leaders: Christy Tanner '99 and Carroll Bogert

New York Media Matters – and Leaders: Christy Tanner '99 and Carroll Bogert

From Capital for Good by Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change

June 18, 2026 · 32 min · Season 5 · Episode 8

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with media leaders Christy Tanner and Carroll Bogert about their careers and the current state of journalism.

In this episode of Capital for Good, we speak with two extraordinary media leaders — Christy Tanner '99, the president and CEO of New York Public Radio, an iconic and 100-year-old center for local and global media, and Carroll Bogert, the CEO of The City Reporter, the independent newsroom founded in 2019 to cover breaking news, investigative, and service journalism in New York City. In this wide-ranging conversation, we hear from these industry veterans about their early callings as reporters, their respective careers as pioneers — one using journalism to hold power to account, one forging new business models in the face of technological transformation — and their thoughts about the challenges, and opportunities, of the current moment in New York and around the world. We start with Tanner and Bogert's gravitational pulls to journalism and the formative experiences as reporters that would shape their careers in media. Tanner explains how as a young girl, inspired by the likes of Nancy Drew and Nellie Bly, the ability to "ask questions, investigate things, find out what's going on," and the creative process of writing "captured my imagination." Her first jobs at the AP and in local…

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Guests: Christy Tanner, Carroll Bogert

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Organizations: New York Public Radio, The City Reporter, AP

Places: New York City, South Carolina, Tennessee

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