Rana Cash

About

Rana L. Cash is the award-winning Executive Editor of The Charlotte Observer. The Observer, under Cash’s leadership, was a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Headliners Award. Cash is a mission-driven newsroom leader dedicated to understanding, prioritizing and meeting the needs of local communities through the reach of digital media. Spurred by national unrest brought on by the COVID pandemic and high-profile public safety crises, Cash pivoted her professional focus fully to strategic approaches designed to hold people and institutions in power to account. Cash believes in the power of trustworthy media and works with urgency to help ensure a sustainable business model that serves the needs of everyone from business leaders to the most vulnerable members of our communities.Prior to joining the Charlotte Observer in 2021, Cash was Executive Editor of the Savannah Morning News and oversaw Georgia newsrooms in Athens and Augusta. Earlier stops also include The Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sporting News, The Minnesota Star-Tribune and the Louisville Courier Journal.Cash serves on the board of the Charlotte Area Association of Black Journalists as Vice President of Print and is a past board member of the North Carolina Local News Lab. She also serves her community as a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Cash. A native of Sanford, Florida, is a graduate of Florida A&M University, where she is a recipient of the journalism department’s Distinguished Alumni Award.