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You’ve started tracking the diversity of your sources. Hooray! Now, there are a few things you and your newsroom can do to make sure that source diversity tracking becomes a lasting habit.
The Seattle station received a CPB grant to distribute the toolkit, which details every aspect of the recruitment process.
“The big challenge is going to be thinking about where Morning Edition goes as a show, in five years and 10 years.”
Stations in Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Jackson, Miss., will join the CPB-supported Urban Alternative format with the goal of reaching new listeners.
“The misery from a local perspective continues even after some of the national media has left. But the unique thing with The Communities Initiative is we’re still here. We’re still recording.”
The podcast follows months of criticism directed at PBS and public media about the system’s DEI initiatives and lack of transparency.
Created by Furman University and South Carolina ETV, the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative convenes its second session next month.
The corporate focus on metrics and data in achieving diversity initiatives can shift internal conversations from “what we’ve always done” to a rationale for specific changes.
The most stubborn obstacle on the path to reform is well-meaning folks who fight inequity whenever they see it but can’t see it when they’re involved.