Influential Woman · Media

Jacqueline Cox

Compliance Analyst, CNBC Select

Simpsonville, SC

Her Story

About Jacqueline

I've been drawn to different forms of media since I was a little girl, starting with an obsession with print when I was in a newspaper. Later in life, I became really obsessed with the news and met a news reporter in West Virginia who I saw as my mentor. That same reporter I looked up to ended up following my music career, which worked out later on down the line when I really did make it musically. I published my first mixtape online in 2006, and now my music is in multiple TV shows, including the Emmy-nominated Amazon Original series 'Watch Out for the Big Girls' with Lizzo. My music now has over 1.9 million plays on TV and film. Since 2023, I've worked as a compliance analyst for CNBC Select, where I audit anywhere from a few to hundreds of articles, working with editors and reporters to ensure editorial content is compliant. The thing I love most is the fact-checking. I saw the back end of the music industry working closely with big publishers as an independent artist, and it gave me a need to help bring the truth to light. My position as a compliance analyst for CNBC Select allows me to do exactly that through digital news. Music has been my therapy and my way of connecting with the world throughout my life.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Jacqueline

01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

Tell your story. Tell yourself. Period. That's the best career advice I've ever received. Telling my story is a matter of life or death for me because it's been that important for my voice to be heard and for me to know that my story has been received. I want someone that looks like me to be able to find proof and evidence on the internet that somebody else can do it. I want there to be hope for the next person that needs it. Your life might depend on telling your story, or someone's life might depend on it.

02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

There will be many different boxes and cages and chains that people will try to put you in, and you don't belong in any of them. Be free. Be willing to be your authentic self and trust what inspires you. Don't be afraid to be different.

03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

In the media in general, one thing I've noticed is that around royalty administration, there is absolutely no monitoring or auditing happening on the music side. I'm planning to launch some sort of compliance company or agency to do in the music industry what I'm doing right now for the news industry, basically ensuring that musicians have their music properly credited and that it's detected instantly if someone uses their work in a placement they don't know about. My story is very interesting because I went 2 years without knowing that my music was in a major TV show, and I found out through Instagram, through a human that used Shazam to detect the song in a soundtrack. If someone would go through and audit soundtracks or major TV series scoring and check to validate who the songwriter is, who the recording artist is, and if they're properly credited, they could work directly with these agencies to rectify any discrepancies in artists getting paid for their work. Another challenge is that mental health is not being addressed across the board in the media. When you're a content creator, writer, or reporter telling the story, you need mental health support, but you don't really think about how telling your story affects your mental health. There's not enough scrutiny around mental health and how important it is to tell your story. Your life might depend on it, or someone's life might depend on it.

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