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Julian Wyllie, Reporter | Members of Beyond Inclusion say they will keep advocating for issues they raised in a March letter to PBS CEO Paula Kerger.
Skye Witley, Former Editorial Intern | Four documentaries and an animated short exploring the Black experience received over $400,000.
Comparing recently released CPB data to U.S. Census demographics shows that public media is only keeping pace with or lagging behind national trends.
Stephanie Mirah, Former Editorial Intern | A 13-week course in the Lingít language is part of broader DEI efforts at the Juneau station.
Skye Witley, Former Editorial Intern | The national program will help 30 students make science videos about topics of their choice.
Skye Witley, Former Editorial Intern | After a journalist tweeted about “massive red flags” during a job interview, FairWarning’s board called it quits.
Julian Wyllie, Reporter and Skye Witley, Former Editorial Intern | Each of the nonprofits that fund and support public TV content by and for diverse communities will receive an additional $500,000.
Julian Wyllie, Reporter | The data also reveals that men and women held equal shares of jobs in the system in 2020.
Skye Witley, Former Editorial Intern | The station will commission and broadcast recordings of works by composers from underrepresented communities.
“The mix of public media messages that I’m needed, but only to a hierarchical point, is a confounding conundrum.”
“This effort is the result of more than 200 people in public media coming together to identify the primary obstacles to anti-racist public media and create a vision for transformation.”
Current and former employees of the Triple A station say they’re troubled by a lack of staff diversity and a clear mission statement, as well as “tension between who we are and who we’re allowed to be.”
Julian Wyllie, Reporter | As management resets its approach for improving workplace culture, an employee-led group that pressed for change moves to the sidelines.
Tyler Falk, Reporter | The “It’s Been a Minute” producer is one of 12 Nieman Visiting Fellows for 2021 and the only one working in public radio.
Tyler Falk, Reporter | Colleagues who convened for Zoom chats evolved into a group pushing for change at stations and networks.