System/Policy
Explicit racism is rare in pubmedia — but unconscious racism is everywhere
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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.
System/Policy
CPB data shows ‘incremental growth’ in racial diversity across stations
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The data also reveals that men and women held equal shares of jobs in the system in 2020.
Programs/Content
PBS execs upbeat about financial outlook, new arts programs
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During the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, President Paula Kerger cited gains in stations’ membership revenues and the Biden administration’s focus on education as bright spots.
Programs/Content
All Classical Portland initiative aims to diversify choices for classical works
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The station will commission and broadcast recordings of works by composers from underrepresented communities.
System/Policy
Made for Public Media: To BIPOC colleagues, what is public media?
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“The mix of public media messages that I’m needed, but only to a hierarchical point, is a confounding conundrum.”
Diversity
An anti-racist future: a vision and plan for the transformation of public media
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“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.”
System/Policy
After union win, staffers at MPR’s The Current seek to address ‘identity crisis’
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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.”
System/Policy
WNET’s plan to address diversity and inclusion leaves some employees feeling shut out
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As management resets its approach for improving workplace culture, an employee-led group that pressed for change moves to the sidelines.
System/Policy
How Celeste Headlee’s ‘safe space’ for colleagues became a movement against racism in public radio
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Colleagues who convened for Zoom chats evolved into a group pushing for change at stations and networks.
System/Policy
In PBS’ 50th year, Paula Kerger sets course to ‘speak to the moment of what is happening now’
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Instead of celebrating great moments of PBS’ history, 2020 has been a year to figure out what will “meet the needs of people right now,” says the organization’s president and CEO.
System/Policy
Public Media for All campaign gives participants ‘something to aspire to’
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Led by people of color in public media, the coalition has gained pledges from nearly two dozen stations and national organizations to commit to changes focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Programs/Content
How Wisconsin Public Radio is using surveys to track diversity of its sources
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By inviting people who appear on air to share their demographic data, WPR created a way to accurately measure the diversity of sources in its news and talk programs.
System/Policy
Coalition organizes day of action for movement to fix public media’s workplace culture
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Public Media for All calls on those who seek to improve diversity, equity and inclusion across the system to take a break from work Nov. 10.
System/Policy
After hiring diverse talent, pubmedia’s challenge is ‘what happens after that’
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“It’s really, really incumbent upon leaders of newsrooms right now to understand that there is a mandate for change,” KQED’s Vinnee Tong said.
System/Policy
Chicago Public Media examines WAMU turmoil to ‘inform how we move forward’ with CEO hire
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Staffers are asking for more transparency about the hiring of Andi McDaniel to lead the station.
System/Policy
Crosscut Union pushes for workforce diversity provisions in contract with Cascade Public Media
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The union, which formed last summer, is calling for accountability on management’s stated commitments to diversity and inclusion.
System/Policy
Two leaders speak ‘uncomfortable truths’ about race in public radio
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In our latest webinar, two station leaders discussed their experiences as people of color in public radio and how their stations have responded to the killing of George Floyd.
System/Policy
‘People don’t stay where they don’t feel safe’: Public radio leaders address diversity in the industry
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In our latest webinar, two public radio leaders discussed their experiences as people of color in public radio and how their stations are addressing diversity and inclusion.
System/Policy
Tweets by WAMU staffers call attention to diversity issues at station
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The outpouring on social media came after a Black producer said his job was in jeopardy.
System/Policy
When one way of speaking dominates, who gets to tell their stories on public radio?
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A journalism school professor argues that NPR’s emphasis on unaccented English “undermines NPR’s original mission of engaging listeners civically.”