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Why Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race

Why Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race

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…
June 11, 2015

Having a Diverse Newsroom Makes Coverage Mainstream

One thing we do at BuzzFeed that works is hiring Hispanic writers. They don’t have to have a sort of Hispanic beat. David Noriega is a national reporter for us…
June 11, 2015
Making Black Lives Matter in the News

Making Black Lives Matter in the News

After unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, a photo of Brown appearing to throw gang signs began…
June 10, 2015
Where Are the Women?

Where Are the Women?

At a time when women head fewer major U.S. newspapers than they did 10 years ago, there is a place where women run not only some of the nation’s leading…
September 11, 2014
Geneva Overholser

Geneva Overholser

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersThe newsroom culture desperately needs to shift from the old “We journalists know news,…
September 11, 2014
Sharing Their Stories

Sharing Their Stories

CNNMeredith ArtleyVice president and managing editor, CNN DigitalThere’s been a longstanding issue of not having enough women’s voices among the big names in journalismThere’s been a longstanding issue of not…
September 11, 2014
Rewriting J-School

Rewriting J-School

When a handful of students show up this fall for the new media innovation graduate program at Northeastern University, they’ll learn coding, information visualization, videography, database management—even game design. The…
June 16, 2014

After the Shouting, Bridging the Divide

‘… our newsroom has made a serious effort to forge a stronger connection between the paper and Buffalo’s black community. … Not for a moment do I believe the healing…
July 6, 2012

Carl Sandburg’s Reporting Foretold the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

“Diversity fatigue has been alive and well in America's news industry for many years,” writes Milton Coleman, a senior editor at The Washington Post and an organizer of Leadership in…
September 13, 2011

Familiar Patterns of Minority Exclusion Follow Mainstream Media Online

‘The parallels between the legacies and online media are as stark as they are disheartening.’
September 7, 2011