Diversity in Journalism

This is a subheadWhy opening up documentary filmmaking is important for both the storytellers and the communities we cover

Independent journalists can bring unique stories and talents to newsrooms looking to reach new audiences

Newsrooms need new entry points for young journalists from diverse backgrounds

Most newsrooms think of diversity and inclusion work as an internal affair, but those efforts won’t succeed in a bubble

Two weeks ago, the world watched as the saga involving Nikole Hannah-Jones’s pursuit of tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came to an unexpected — and…

Why an artist’s angelic rendering of George Floyd could help change the way journalists describe victims of police violence

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I was followed into my newsrooms’ building in downtown Washington, D.C. by a man who called me a “dirty bitch with the flu.”My…

I am one of a handful of openly disabled journalists. I have had to actively find every other disabled journalist I know. Some of us are closeted.It’s impossible to know,…

Wesley Lowery was just 25 when The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for the newspaper’s “Fatal Force” project in 2016. Lowery was the driving force behind the project, a database…

Understanding the barriers to increasing source diversity is key to overcoming them