Diversity

Serving the Audiences Mainstream Newsrooms Don’t

Serving the Audiences Mainstream Newsrooms Don’t

How the pandemic, anti-police brutality protests, and Atlanta spa shootings starkly illustrate the need for community and immigrant-serving media outlets
Get to Know the Newsrooms Focused on Elevating Latinx Voices in the U.S.

Get to Know the Newsrooms Focused on Elevating Latinx Voices in the U.S.

From more established outlets to startups, these newsrooms are bringing nuanced, in-depth coverage to the issues impacting Latinx people
True Newsroom Diversity Must Account for Disability Status, Too

True Newsroom Diversity Must Account for Disability Status, Too

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,…
Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence Is Changing

Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence Is Changing

Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims
To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts

To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts

Germans have a term — vergangenheitsbewältigung — to describe the process of coming to terms with the past. The concept emerged in the decades after World War II, as historians, philosophers,…
Want Diverse Newsrooms? Unions Push for Pay Equity As a Path Forward

Want Diverse Newsrooms? Unions Push for Pay Equity As a Path Forward

“If we can’t make bold changes now, it seems like we never will”
Meet the New Black Press

Meet the New Black Press

How nimble, mission-driven outlets and a citizen-focused initiative are telling stories about — and for — Black communities
Where Are the Mothers?

Where Are the Mothers?

If news organizations want to attract and retain millennial journalists, newsrooms must better meet the needs of parents with young children—and create better work-life balance for everyone
Still An Outsider in Mainstream Journalism

Still An Outsider in Mainstream Journalism

I watched election-night coverage on television with acquaintances from Europe, who seemed flummoxed by what was unfolding on the screen. I spent a lot of time explaining the Electoral College…
Let the Interlopers In

Let the Interlopers In

I remember the day the Los Angeles Times decided to hire me. I’d been freelancing for the paper out of California’s Central Valley. Ashley Dunn, then the metro editor, came…