Diversity in Journalism

Most newsrooms think of diversity and inclusion work as an internal affair, but those efforts won’t succeed in a bubble. Read more on the importance of a diverse newsroom, diverse sourcing, and engagement tactics that reach a diverse audience from our archives.

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Journalists Need to Remember that Not All News Readers are White

By Marc Lacey• Diversity in Journalism• September 1, 2020

Every journalist needs to imagine a reader, someone to tell the story to. Of course, we all want many, many readers but keeping at least one person in mind during the writing process can help keep engaging prose from veering … Read more

Is Movement Journalism What’s Needed During this Reckoning over Race and Inequality?

By Tina Vasquez• Diversity in Journalism• August 25, 2020

Last summer I found myself at the M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge in Jackson, Mississippi. Considered “the epicenter of the civil rights movement,” the well-worn building was once the training site for the Freedom Riders and … Read more

In Photographing Social Justice Protests, Respect Means ‘Looking Again’

By Melissa Bunni Elian• Diversity in Journalism• July 29, 2020

On July 19, Black Lives Matter Toronto activists held a press conference about the release of three demonstrators from police custody in connection with pink paint that had been thrown on three statues — including one … Read more

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and “The Pipeline Problem”

By Doug Mitchell• Diversity in Journalism• July 24, 2020

Some years ago, I was turning in my invoice for payment to NPR at the end of a month. I haven’t been a full-time employee at NPR, where I spent 20+ years as a producer and live-show director, since 2008. Read more

Meet the New Black Press

By Deborah Douglas• Diversity• July 14, 2020

The TMZ headline “1,000 People Attend Chicago House Party During Coronavirus Pandemic” was worrisome to Tiffany Walden, editor-in-chief of The TRiiBE, a digital outlet that aims to reshape the narrative about Black Chicago. She was already following social media … Read more

Images that Offer Fresh Takes on Minority Communities

Diversity in Journalism• May 15, 2017

Related Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color By Tara Pixley The best visual journalism displays the human condition as honestly and thoroughly as possible. Read more

Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color

By Tara Pixley• Diversity in Journalism• May 15, 2017

A tall man—handgun tucked in his waistband and face wrapped in a shirt leaving only his eyes visible—stares at the journalists staring at him. He is looting a Ferguson, Missouri gas station during protests of Michael Brown’s shooting by police. Read more

Public Radio and the Sound of America

By Adriana Gallardo and Betsy O'Donovan• Diversity• June 11, 2015

When “Tell Me More,” NPR’s talk show about diversity, was canceled in 2014, NPR’s then-ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos observed that Latinos (16 percent of the U.S. population) hold only 5 percent of newsroom jobs at NPR … Read more

Why Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race

By Eric Deggans• Diversity• June 11, 2015

It’s tough to turn on a TV news report, pick up a newspaper or surf across a news website these days without seeing a story at least partially affected by race. A report from the U.S. Department of Justice … Read more

Is Solutions Journalism the Solution?

By John Dyer• Diversity in Journalism• June 11, 2015

Journalists make careers out of covering the symptoms and causes of bad urban public schools, writing tragedies about students falling through the cracks, scoring scoops from school board investigations, and chasing scandals alongside concerned parents, angry teachers unions, and … Read more