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This year’s RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey survey found that 63.9% of noncommercial radio newsrooms surveyed had staffers of color.
KPBS is one of five newsrooms that will “test new strategies to build relationships with underserved communities.”
“I think that the only way we do better is if we have accountability,” said Pallavi Gogoi, head of NPR’s business desk.
Representation of Hispanics and African Americans grew in leadership ranks, while the percentage of such roles held by Asians and Pacific Islanders fell.
The seminal research initiative Audience 88 shaped programming for more than 30 years. It’s time for a new vision.
Changing the storytellers is the only way to help reverse the news media’s unconscionable pattern of racial inequity, says YR Media CEO Kyra Kyles.
Our webinar featured Whitney Maddox, NPR’s DEI manager, and Kim Salvaggio, chief DEI officer at Rocky Mountain Public Media.
The network said that in fiscal year 2021, 51% of its nationally programmed prime-time schedule “included diverse on-screen talent; was produced, written or directed by diverse makers; and/or explored diversity-related topics.”
Almost every public media organization is prioritizing diversity. Yet beyond hiring, what are the next steps for content strategy?