Tag: Diversity
Tweets by WAMU staffers call attention to diversity issues at station
The outpouring on social media came after a Black producer said his job was in jeopardy.When one way of speaking dominates, who gets to tell their stories on public radio?
A journalism school professor argues that NPR's emphasis on unaccented English "undermines NPR’s original mission of engaging listeners civically."An open letter to NPR President John Lansing: Racial justice is public media’s mission
Current Executive Director Julie Drizin responds to Lansing's call to action to confront racism.New studies of source diversity guide stations’ work in covering their communities
Blue Ridge Public Radio and KUT in Austin, Texas, recently shared results of yearlong surveys.NPR’s Keith Woods promoted to chief diversity officer
Woods will help NPR "build a more diverse and inclusive organization."New MPR-backed site hopes to be ‘one-stop shop for all things immigrant’
Support from Minnesota Public Radio is enabling a website covering the state’s immigrant communities to expand into a full-time venture for its ...To diversify its audience, Nevada’s KUNR goes bilingual
The Reno station has sharpened its focus on serving a Latino audience by posting some news coverage in both English and Spanish.Public radio’s efforts to track source diversity seen as path to addressing ‘deep problem’
KUT in Austin, Texas, along with Philadelphia’s WHYY, Seattle’s KUOW and San Francisco’s KQED, are all engaged in efforts to gather and ...Newsrooms must be ‘prodded into action’ on staffing diversity, says Harvard report
NPR and "PBS NewsHour" were among the few national media outlets to share staff diversity data for the report.‘Made Possible By…’ #16: Producer and station leader Marita Rivero
"We like to talk about what the Ferguson police look like, but we don't like so much turning around and seeing what ...How a CPB task force advanced a prescient vision for diversity in public radio
In the late 1970s, the critiques by CPB's Minority Task Force pushed NPR to increase minority employment and training programs and served ...CPB grant seeks to foster diversity in public radio newsrooms
The four stations collaborating on the project will each hire a new reporter.NPR and stations team up again to recruit minority journalists
The Public Media Village concept tested last year will be adapted for several conferences this summer, including next month's AAJA event in ...Independent filmmakers group stands up to Capitol Hill criticism
A Republican lawmaker accused CPB having an “agenda” by supporting three films.Threatening and threatened, voices of women have defined public radio
From its origins, NPR emphasized contributions from women at a time when they were rarely heard in positions of authority in broadcasting.
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