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Julie Drizin, Executive Director | Current Executive Director Julie Drizin responds to Lansing’s call to action to confront racism.
Sasha Fernandez, Editorial Intern | Poetry can be a way to deal with “heavy, emotionally weighted things,” says Kwame Alexander, who co-hosts the show’s poetry segments.
Grace Vitaglione, Editorial Intern | Blue Ridge Public Radio and KUT in Austin, Texas, recently shared results of yearlong surveys.
Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | The Reno station has sharpened its focus on serving a Latino audience by posting some news coverage in both English and Spanish.
Jill Goldsmith, Contributing Editor | Tanzina Vega and Amy Walter tackle topics in ways that feel “like a much more open conversation.”
April Simpson, Former Associate Editor | KUT in Austin, Texas, along with Philadelphia’s WHYY, Seattle’s KUOW and San Francisco’s KQED, are all engaged in efforts to gather and analyze data on their sourcing in news reports or show segments.
Do public radio stations know how their communities perceive their coverage? Are we willing to find out?
Tyler Falk, Reporter | The four stations collaborating on the project will each hire a new reporter.
April Simpson, Former Associate Editor | An AIR report argues that live events are important to public media to raise awareness and support and find crucial voices that may be missing from reporting.
Making a difference, serving the audience — people who work in public media explain why they devote themselves to the job.
Public media journalists give their recommendations.
What’s really involved in the hard work of broadening public media’s range of voices?
April Simpson, Former Associate Editor | One area needing attention is recruitment of Latinos, particularly in supervisory roles.
A report offers recommendations for journalists looking to produce comprehensive and inclusive coverage of racial issues.
Jill Goldsmith, Contributing Editor | The oral-history nonprofit has taken a series of steps to diversify its staff and increase contributions from underrepresented communities.