Diversity
We can’t let anti-DEI laws kill public media
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These laws not only create an environment ripe for misunderstanding but also gut efforts to equip employees with the skills to engage all our communities effectively.
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These laws not only create an environment ripe for misunderstanding but also gut efforts to equip employees with the skills to engage all our communities effectively.
A grant from the Barr Foundation provides “seed funding” for GBH News to build the “capacity and intention to support this work in perpetuity,” says Executive Editor Lee Hill.
Leaders in public media fear the state laws could have a “chilling effect” on DEI work at some stations.
“We are going to create a whole new audience and a new way of receiving information in the Black community,” says Tracy Parsons, a community advisory board member involved in developing the new service.
“Clearly, the path to diversifying audiences for our organizations involves a robust digital strategy in addition to making our radio programming welcoming to listeners from all backgrounds and ethnicities,” writes the leader of Classical KING FM.
The news service will be transformative for Ampers, as well as “a very needed product and project for the citizens of Minnesota,” CEO Joel Glaser said.
The fiscal year 2022 report is the second annual study from PBS highlighting its efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion.
Good or even great work is not always equitable work. We often simply don’t reach children of color because we establish or preserve barriers that prevent reach.
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?
NPR’s SAG-AFTRA union issued a mixed progress report this month on its demands for addressing diversity issues within the network.
The end of an employee council focused on DEI issues has lessened friction within the station. But former members say areas such as pay transparency haven’t been addressed.
Stations that signed on to the Public Media for All campaign have made progress in DEI work, but not without tackling internal challenges.