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Is your newsroom inclusive? Here’s how you tell
Wondering how inclusive your newsroom is — both with staffing and with its coverage? Inclusivity is difficult to measure, but Public Radio International CEO and president Alisa Miller has a solution. Her…
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Women of color lead fight against trolls
When Tracie Powell’s alldigitocracy.org pushed out a piece on social media criticizing the coverage of the Pulse shooting in Orlando, it only took about two hours for the backlash to hit. The story…
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How not to screw up inclusive coverage
I’m gonna be real here: Right now, sitting in front of my graveyard of Reese’s Cups wrappers in the corner of the Student Newsroom, I am painfully aware that I…
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ONA attendees reflect push for diversity
By Lucas Waldron and Alex Duner Excited crowds of digital gurus are snaking through the Hyatt Regency, clutching beige tote bags, contemplating the evolving world of online news and wondering…
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Confronting the Challenges: Q &A With a Female Newsroom Leader
Female journalists make up just 27 percent of top management positions in the industry, but Tasha Stewart wants to change that number. Stewart, who is the entertainment editor at WCPO in…
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The Diversity issue, what’s really being done to solve it?
The word diversity makes some optimistic, others scurry, and a number of people not even flinch. However, the cat is out of the bag for newsrooms. For every 100 people…
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Entrepreneurial Journalists: More writers of color than we see
As mainstream media outlets continue to press forward on their effort to improve diversity in their newsrooms, some writers of color who have begun careers in media find fulfillment in…
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Film makes fight for women’s right to vote personal
The power of “Suffragette” stems from how personal it is. The film follows the transformation of a British working-class woman in 1912. She starts off as a loving mother and devoted wife…
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Will You Be ‘The Black’ Reporter?
By Kendall Trammell ONA Newsroom Tracie Powell never wanted to be the “black reporter.” “Never my goal, never my agenda,” said Powell, the founder of All Digitocracy, speaking at an…
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How Some Newsrooms are Changing the Narrative
Journalists say yes, there is a right way to diversify your newsroom.
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