Founded in 2008, Soapbox Cincinnati is a digital news magazine focused on dynamic communities, businesses, and people of the Cincinnati region. We cover what's next in entrepreneurship and creative culture in and around Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Soapbox provides high-quality, long-form journalism fostering civic engagement through storytelling and solutions journalism reporting about diverse talent and people-led initiatives transforming community and economic development.
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Meet the Soapbox team
Patrice Watson, publisher | managing editor
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Patrice began consulting at
Raise Your Share to assist businesses and nonprofits with digital and social media. Her career includes a decade as publisher of
Cincinnati Magazine, account management for iHeart Media's 700WLW, audience development for radio and television plus radio station general sales management. The immediacy of broadcasting combined with publishing’s ability to detail stories is ideal for
Soapbox digital storytelling and solutions journalism reporting. It's a serendipitous merger of offline and online media. She joined IMG in 2016 as
Soapbox Cincinnati's publisher and assumed the managing editor role in 2022.
Soapbox Cincinnati contributors:
Current contributors include Jan Angilella, Steve Aust, Jessica Bozsan, Miyah Byrd, Eliza Bobonick, Julie Carpenter, Amy Briana Counts, Nancy Daly, David Holthaus, Chuck Keller, Kate Harold, Liz McEwan, Margaret A. McGurk, Julie Mullins, Tina Neyer, Alex Ralph, Kareem A. Simpson, Connie Springer, and Brittany York.
Photography and Videography contributors:
Fourthwall Youth Studios, Natalie Grilli, Gary Kessler, and Joe Simon
Social media: Steve Aust
Soapbox Cincinnati is published by Issue Media Group. Incorporated in 2005 in Detroit, Michigan, IMG operates a national network of online media outlets leveraging the power of solutions-based journalism to report on community change. Our publications aim to connect readers to their communities’ most visionary and innovative people, projects, businesses, and organizations – fostering civic capacity, improving understanding of key issues, amplifying underserved voices, and building community attachment during a time of local media decline.
We work with like-minded stakeholders across public, private, nonprofit, and grassroots organizations whose values and missions align with ours through an underwriting model of publishing. Our journalists connect with community stakeholders through regular listening sessions designed to build trust and shape authentic community stories.
IMG's work has been recognized and supported by leading journalism organizations nationally including INC Magazine, Knight Foundation, Columbia Journalism Review, Facebook, Lenfest Institute, Google, Solutions Journalism Network, Ground Source, and Society for Professional Journalists.
Learn more about IMG's underwriting policy and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.