Tag: Diversity
All Classical Portland initiative aims to diversify choices for classical works
The station will commission and broadcast recordings of works by composers from underrepresented communities.Made for Public Media: To BIPOC colleagues, what is public media?
"The mix of public media messages that I’m needed, but only to a hierarchical point, is a confounding conundrum."An anti-racist future: a vision and plan for the transformation of public media
"This effort is the result of more than 200 people in public media coming together to identify the primary obstacles to anti-racist ...After union win, staffers at MPR’s The Current seek to address ‘identity crisis’
Current and former employees of the Triple A station say they're troubled by a lack of staff diversity and a clear mission ...WNET’s plan to address diversity and inclusion leaves some employees feeling shut out
As management resets its approach for improving workplace culture, an employee-led group that pressed for change moves to the sidelines.How Celeste Headlee’s ‘safe space’ for colleagues became a movement against racism in public radio
Colleagues who convened for Zoom chats evolved into a group pushing for change at stations and networks.In PBS’ 50th year, Paula Kerger sets course to ‘speak to the moment of what ...
Instead of celebrating great moments of PBS’ history, 2020 has been a year to figure out what will “meet the needs of ...Public Media for All campaign gives participants ‘something to aspire to’
Led by people of color in public media, the coalition has gained pledges from nearly two dozen stations and national organizations to ...How Wisconsin Public Radio is using surveys to track diversity of its sources
By inviting people who appear on air to share their demographic data, WPR created a way to accurately measure the diversity of ...Coalition organizes day of action for movement to fix public media’s workplace culture
Public Media for All calls on those who seek to improve diversity, equity and inclusion across the system to take a break ...After hiring diverse talent, pubmedia’s challenge is ‘what happens after that’
“It's really, really incumbent upon leaders of newsrooms right now to understand that there is a mandate for change," KQED's Vinnee Tong ...Chicago Public Media examines WAMU turmoil to ‘inform how we move forward’ with CEO hire
Staffers are asking for more transparency about the hiring of Andi McDaniel to lead the station.Crosscut Union pushes for workforce diversity provisions in contract with Cascade Public Media
The union, which formed last summer, is calling for accountability on management’s stated commitments to diversity and inclusion.Two leaders speak ‘uncomfortable truths’ about race in public radio
In our latest webinar, two station leaders discussed their experiences as people of color in public radio and how their stations have ...‘People don’t stay where they don’t feel safe’: Public radio leaders address diversity in the ...
In our latest webinar, two public radio leaders discussed their experiences as people of color in public radio and how their stations ...
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