WBJ Editor Brad Kane
Updated: September 30, 2024
Opinion
From the Editor: An ode to women making a difference
My photo appearing as part of this column is one of the very few of a man you’ll see for the stories in WBJ's Sept. 30 magazine. This issue’s hyperfocus on female professionals wasn’t by design, but I do love it when things like this happen.
From the start of this year, this edition always was planned as the showcase for WBJ’s Outstanding Women in Business award winners, so it stood to reason people featured in the following pages would be majority female. However, as the WBJ newsroom staff started developing the rest of the content for this issue back in early September, it became evident nearly all the featured subjects would be women.
For the cover story, Staff Writer Mica Kanner-Mascolo features an excellent tale of perseverance and redemption in her “Recovery” story. Her story details the lives and work of the leaders behind the former nonprofit Living in Freedom Together, after its founder was forced out following a relapse and its new leaders had to find a new path forward. In his Q&A-style story, Staff Writer Eric Casey sat down with Kim Golinski, the new president of the Worcester Railers, over her plans for the upcoming hockey season.
In other content for this edition, I asked the trade group Associated Industries of Massachusetts if anyone wanted to write a column about business confidence and falling interest rates, and AIM’s CEO and board chair of economic advisors – both women – raised their hands. Female authors contributed all the columns in the edition's advice section as well. For the recurring Shop Talk feature, attorney Brigid Harrington from Bowditch & Dewey sat down with WBJ Correspondent Sara Bedigian to discuss how to support women in the legal profession.
As a news organization, WBJ can’t dictate the gender of the people making news every day. However, a point of pride during my nine-year tenure as editor has been WBJ’s coverage of all aspects of the Central Massachusetts business community, particularly highlighting the underrepresented and undercovered ones. When it happens that all the featured people in a single edition are those who might have been overlooked 10, 20, or 30 years ago, it makes me happy.
Brad Kane is editor of the Worcester Business Journal
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