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By Margaret Evans
(April 26, 2013) -
Kip Fulbeck: Photographer, Film Maker, Performance Artist originates from California where he currently lives and teaches at UC Santa Barbara. Fulbeck is a pioneer in the area of mixing visual art media to address issues concerning multicultural awareness.
Fulbeck's work explores identity politics. His own mixed race and ethnic background is Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh. He is the author of several visual books including Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids; Part Asian, 100% Hapa; and Permanence: Tattoo Portraits, as well as the director of a dozen short films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me.
In recognition for Fulbeck’s work promoting multiracial awareness, he was awarded the inaugural Loving Prize at the 2009 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival and also named a Cultural Pioneer at Harvard University. His work can be explored on his web site.
Click here to see explore information about more diveristy videos/films
By Alexandra Raphel
(December 7, 2012 | Journalist's Resource) -- On November 27, 2012, four female service members — all of whom have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — filed suit against the Department of Defense, challenging the 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule, which restricts women from serving in ground combat units. Read more
By Walter Brasch
(Dec. 6, 2012 | Source: Wanderings) --
Mark Fields is the new chief operating officer of the Ford Motor Co., second only to the CEO of the 164,000 person multinational corporation.
Normally, this would not be of much concern except to avid readers of the Wall Street Journal. But this time it’s different. Mark Fields is a Jew.
Henry Ford, who founded the company in 1903 that bears his family name, was an anti-Semite. Read more
By Crystal Good
(December 1, 2012) - No matter if I tried, I would never be seen as a Friend of Coal. I’m a bastard child, an environmental child.
I know this.
Yet I salute multimillionaire coal baron Jim Justice for what he’s doing for West Virginia’s tourism economy while protesting mountaintop removal with a vengeance.
Is it really possible to do both?
Absolutely.
Read more
Oct. 14: Youtube seeks to click with more diverse audience
Oct.11: Affirmative Action Cuts Loom As Colleges Await Ruling
Sept. 25: Texas diversity tested as Court may curb affirmative action
Sept. 13: Black women leaders face 'Double Jeopardy,' harsher criticism than others: Study
CEOs: Your corporate websites should reflect your commitment to diversity in management
Aug. 29: MSNBC Falsely Accused Of Purposely Omitting Minority Republican Speeches
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(Nov. 14, 2012 | Source: Maynard Institute) - Although people of mixed races have lived in the United States for centuries, authorities on multiracial identity say mainstream media continue to report on these people as if they are a new phenomenon. Read more
By Alice Bonner
(Source: Maynard Institute | Sept.19, 2012) - During the peak season of presidential politics 40 years ago, a striking young newswoman appeared in the World Room of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her visit was much anticipated . . . Read more
(Source: The Root | September 15) - Clutch magazine's Britni Danielle says that the U.S. Tennis Association's treatment of Taylor Townsend has everything to do with biases related to race and gender. Read more
By Mia Moody-Ramirez & Federico Subervi
To determine the ethnicity/race and gender of AEJMC leaders, this study analyzes the 2007-2011 annual demo forms submitted to the AEJMC Central Office by divisions, commissions and interest groups. Read more
By Joshunda Sanders
Other than stories about poverty and crime on reservations, mainstream media coverage of Native Americans and issues they confront is often steeped in stereotypes that portray Indians as lawless and living in the distant past.
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Cross-cultural mentorship: How did IBM, E&Y and Kraft increase diversity in management?
(July 25, 2012 | DiversityInc.) - What’s the key to achieving better engagement and promotion among Blacks, Latinos, Asians and women? Provide them the career support they need early on with cross-cultural mentoring. Read more
The media and the N word
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(July 19, 2012 | Maynard Institue) - One of the quickest ways for celebrities to make headlines is to use the N-word. Gwyneth Paltrow, John Mayer and Laura Schlessinger, aka “Dr. Laura,” have done it, and Paltrow did it most recently. In June, she stirred controversy by tweeting the name of a rap song by Jay-Z and Kanye West that features the derogatory term. Read more
Future of El Diario
By Angelo Falcón
Related story:
Immigration reform finds support in Florida
[Tampa Bay Times]
Learning English gets high importance among Mexican immigrantsA study "challenges assumptions"
(July 14, 2012) - A "Texas A&M study challenges assumptions about immigrant views on language acquisition," writes Rozanne Larsen of Journalist's Resource. There has been a criticism about a section of Spanish-speaking immigrants for their "unwillingness" in learning and using English. Read more
Has higher education become an engine of inequality?
(July 2, 2012 | The Chronicle Review) - Inequality is growing in the United States, and social mobility is slowing. A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 62 percent of Americans raised in the top one-fifth of the income scale stay in the top two-fifths; 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths. Click here to read what a group of researchers and scholars have to say.
Supreme Court upholds Obama healthcare plan: Reducing racial inequities
A DiversityInc. Analysis
(June 29, 2012) - The Supreme Court’s decision of upholding President Barack Obama’s healthcare law is a victory for those who aggressively seek to reduce healthcare disparities primarily affecting Blacks and Latinos. Read more
Race factor? Ann Curry’s possible ouster from ‘Today’ show
By Tom Huang
(June 21, 2012 | Source: Poynter) - This week’s news of Ann Curry’s problems as co-host of NBC’s “Today” show makes my mind reel and my heart ache. Read more
Media representation of Asian Americans missing important depth
By Joshunda Sanders
(June 14, 2012 | Maynard Institute) - From New York Knicks basketball star Jeremy Lin to Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the mainstream media usually portray Asian-Americans as wealthy, well-educated and foreign. The dominant cultural narrative routinely ignores working and middle class Asian Americans . . . Read more
Indian Country reports on native women’s success in science
By Carol Berry
(June 14, 2012) - From earth to sky, there’s no frontier Native American women haven’t crossed, from mapping the earth to flying through hurricanes to mastering animal science and promoting indigenous knowledge. Read more
Ruling against defense of Marriage Act is major diversity victory
By Barbara Frankel | DiversityInc
(June 1, 2012) - Diversity and inclusion advocates are celebrating a major legal victory in the civil-rights battle of this century on marriage equality. A Boston federal court determined that portions of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) are unconstitutional, bringing the case to the Supreme Court and the strong possibility that the law will be permanently overturned. Read more
Race and Media
Media portrayals of black youths and racial tension
By Joshunda Sanders
(May 24, 2012 | Maynard Institute) - Mainstream media often portray African-American youths, especially black men and boys, as criminals, crime victims and predators. These stereotypes, according to social justice advocates, can create a racially charged atmosphere that results in violence such as the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin. Read more
“Demands” of minorities as new majority
Based on a satirical piece in Dominion of New York
By Dominion of New York and Voices of NY
(May 23, 2012) - According to the latest Census release this month, “whites are losing their grip on the ballot box even faster than predicted.” Journalist Kelly Virella at Dominion of NY offered a humorous take on the news, Now That Our Kids Are the Majority, These Are Our Demands. Though the report was published in humor section of Dominion of NY, Voices of NY ran an editorial about this report. Click here to read the editorial.
Class, Politics and Media
Minimum wage debate is “more than just politics” for single mothers
Originally reported by Jose Acosta,El Diario La Prensa
Translated by Emily Leavitt, Voices of NY
(May 18, 2012 | Voices of NY) - With a bill to increase the minimum wage stalled in the state legislature, one single mother in the Bronx told El Diario La Prensa about her struggles to make ends meet. Read more
Intellectual Diversity
Anti-intellectualism is taking over the U.S.
By Patricia Williams | The Guardian
(May 18, 2012) - Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has been banned, in effect, from the schools in Tucson, Arizona. The anti-ethnic studies law passed by the state. Read more
Diversity in Media
Media coverage of reproductive rights often excludes women of color
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(May 17, 2012 | Source: Maynard Institute) - Social wedge issues such as abortion, birth control and sex education in public schools have taken center stage and sometimes dominated the political debate this year, but progressive experts on reproductive rights are concerned that women of color are rarely represented in the mainstream media’s coverage. Read more
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion mean zero tolerance for bullying
By Barbara Frankel
(May 11, 2012 | DiversityInc) - Diversity and inclusion cannot exist in a culture that allows bullying in any way. Bullying starts young–examples of bullying in schools with horrific results, especially suicides are in the news every day. If bullies are left unchecked when they’re young, they grow up to be bullies in the workplace, which undermines diversity management’s impact. Read more
Diversity, Politics and Media
Obama’s support for same-sex marriage finds “accolades” in ethnic and local media
By Voices of NY
(May 10, 2012) - President Barack Obama’s revelation that he “personally” supports same-sex marriage — in a taped interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts — sparked a range of reactions from the ethnic press and New York City’s community media. Many took the opportunity to debunk assumptions about their community’s stance on same-sex marriage.
This report is based on the analyses and observations carried out in Amsterdam News, DNAinfo, Gay City News, The Jewish Daily Forward, The Root, Women's eNews, and Youth ommunication. Read more
Diversity, Politics & Media
Obama’s support for gay marriage: How did journalists respond?
By Kelly McBride
(May 9, 2012 | Poynter) - Did you say “Yay”? Tweet out a “hurrah”? Did you pass along a funny joke or link to a partisan headline like “Obama declares war on traditional America” or a story that declared the president’s announcement “A victory.” Read more
New Orleans community activist denounces New York Times portrayal of ninth ward
By Jenga Mwendo
(May 10, 2012 | Maynard Institute) - The New York Times Magazine recently ran a story on my home, the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a place one of the most powerful newspapers in the world insensitively dubbed a “Jungleland.” Contrary to the article, residents of this community are not reconciled to life in the wilderness and we don’t live in an untamed mess of overgrowth or in a forgotten wasteland. We are not resigned to anything; we are fighting to revive our community. Read more
Resource article on immigration
Economic slowdown in U.S. might have reduced migration flow from Mexico:
A Pew Hispanic Center study finding
By Christopher Olver
(May 4, 2012 | Source: Journalist's Resources) - While the political debate over immigration reform continues to evolve, underlying patterns of migration to the United States have been shifting in recent years. Read more
Are media ready to ban all offensive slurs?
Use of "that vile word"
By Richard Prince's Journal-isms
(May 7, 2012 | Maynard Institute) - NABJ leaders urge N.Y. Post never to use "that vile word"; S. African quits job to take Nieman; apartheid era echoed; ABC, Univision announce joint cable channel; . . . L.A. riots led to better coverage of Asian Americans; Stanford fellowships cite outreach for diversity success; Jenkins to edit theRootDC for Washington Post; why have white men always hosted "Meet the Press?" Read more
More importantly, this article included responses on the media policies about using "epithets for race, ethnicity and sexual orientation" from New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Cable News Network (CNN), and Johnson Publishing Company.
DiversityInc: 3 ways to avoid racist ads like Ashton Kutcher in Popchips
Video Source: Popchipsfan on YouTube
Six national leaders and experts look at NPR's diversity
By Edward Schumacher-Matos
(May 1, 2012 | Source: WWNO) - At my request, NPR has released more information than any mainstream media organization on the diversity of its editorial staff and audience. Read more
Cultural reality
The teen scene: Halloween versus Holi?
By Nitisha Baronia
(Source: India West | Mar 20, 2012) - Indian-American teens are faced with both Indian and American holidays and it is sometimes quite difficult to choose which is better. Of course, one would think that being able to celebrate twice as many festivals would only spread joy. Read more
Racial reference is irrelevant when a crime suspect is found or apprehended: AP stylebook update
By Mallary Jean Tenore
(March 14, 2012 | Poynter) - The AP Stylebook has recently updated its entry on when journalists should publish information about a person’s race. Read more
Types of online activities: Significant gender and age gaps
(March 15, 2012 | Journalist's Resources) - A 2012 study from the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan and Duke University published in First Monday, “An Analysis of the Information Behaviors, Goals and Intentions of Frequent Internet Users: Findings From Online Activity Diaries,” found that there were gender and age gaps in people’s confidence of their abilities to perform online activities and seek information.
Accoding to the study, male and younger respondents were more confident in their ability to conduct a wide variety of online activities, while women expressed slightly more confidence in their ability to make online purchases. Read more
Apache 8: A film about challenging lives of Native firefighters
Producer/Director: Sande Zeig
Apache 8 tells the story of an all-women wildland firefighting crew from the White Mountain Apache Tribe, who have been fighting fires in Arizona and throughout the U.S. for over 30 years. Read more about it and other films about the lives of Native women.
Let's Get Real - A film to create awareness on bullying
(Source: GroundSpark) – Let’s Get Real examines the issues that lead to taunting and bullying, including racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and others. Click here to know more about this film and watch the trailer.
Contribution of people of color in job-producing process is missing in the news coverage
By Mike Green
(Maynard Institute | March 9, 2012) - Media coverage of hot-button issues on jobs and the U.S. economy inextricably links African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans to financial misery and economic despair. Read more
Do white men really need diversity outreach?
(Source: DiversityInc.) - How do you reach white men and make them understand that they are part of diversity? Generating buy-in from white men is a challenge in some companies, especially for middle management. Even the DiversityInc Top 50 companies are split on strategies, with some choosing to directly focus on white men as a demographic group while others insist they are included in all diversity efforts. Read more
Critiquing western media coverage of Africa
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(Source: Maynard Institute |
April 5, 2012) - Impoverished. Corrupt. Helpless. That’s how Western mainstream media often portray nations of Africa. Rarely do broadcast and print news agencies report uplifting stories, instead favoring sensational tales that frequently depict Africa as a continent in ruins. Read more
Why bilinguals are smarter?
(Geoscope.com | March 28, 2012) - I recently read an article with the above title in the New York Times – sent to me by my sister who is an instructor of young children in California in a “dual immersion” Spanish/English school. The article is a must read and wake-up call to our American-centric culture that for too long has under-emphasized the role of other languages. Read more
Media coverage of evangelical Christians ignores Blacks and Latinos
Nadra Kareem Nittle
(Source: Maynard Institute | March 22, 2012) - With state and national Republicans emphasizing religious wedge issues, such as health coverage for contraception and separation of church and state, the media have frequently reported on the demographic most aroused by these issues — evangelical voters. But have the media accurately portrayed these evangelical Christians? Read more
A joint project on news coverage of labor and sex trafficking in Carlifornia
(New America Media | Feb. 17, 2012) - NAM editors and reporters worked with SF Public Press and El Tecolote to produce a series on the battle against human trafficking in the Bay Area. Make sure to look out for the stories on NAM's site. Read more
Book
The New Jim Crow
(Source: The New Press) - The New Press has released the updated paperback edition of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. Click here for more information about the book.
Black History Month: Facts & Figures
(Source: DiversityInc.) - Black History Month is a time to commemorate achievement. DiversityInc provides a list of the important dates and relevant demographics you need to know. Click here to view the key timeline events and demographic facts on DiversityInc.com.
Native Americans
Using UN declaration to end the epidemic of violence against women
(Feb. 1, 2012 | Source: Turtle Talk) - The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples signals a new means to change federal law and policy to restore safety to Native women, to strengthen Indian nations and advance their jurisdiction over crimes within their territories, and to end the cycle of violence in Native communities. Read more.
New Book:
Overcoming Bias: A Journalist's Guide to Culture and Context
(Source: Holcomb Hathaway)
- This book offers a new perspective on journalism without bias. Author Sue Ellen Christian advances the argument that there is a more pervasive set of internal biases and flaws in thinking that can lead to unintentional inaccuracies and distortions in news coverage.
Click here to read more about this book.
Media coverage presents blacks as “villains” in the struggle for marriage equality
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(December 1, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - Mainstream media coverage of the ban on same-sex marriage in California wrongly cites support from black voters as the deciding factor in passage of Proposition 8. Read more
“By Invitation Only”: A PBS award-winning film
10 minutes of free preview
Synopsis: New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker explores the insular world of the elite, white Carnival societies and debutante balls of Mardi Gras. Questioning their racial exclusivity, she takes an unprecedented insider's look at the pageantry and asks: what does it mean to be the queen of the masked men? As she examines her own place in an alluring tradition, Snedeker challenges viewers to reflect on the roles we all play in our lives (Source:New Day Film).
What Clinton’s global LGBT-rights speech means for your company
By Barbara Frankel
(DiversityInc., December 7) - The Obama administration’s shift in policy to support LGBT rights globally is a significant human rights victory that will have long-term repercussions for companies doing business abroad. It is particularly relevant in countries where LGBT people must remain closeted for fear of ostracism, prison or even death. Read more
“Global Learning for Global Citizenship” at Florida International University
(AAC&U News, December 2011) - Florida International University (FIU) was founded with a distinctly global outlook. The Miami-based university is known for its extensive area studies and diverse faculty and student population—FIU’s student body is composed of 81 percent ethnic and racial minority students, and the university confers more bachelor’s and master’s degrees to Hispanic students than any other institution in the United States.
But until recently, “that diverse, global aspect wasn’t actually being put to use for student learning,” says Hilary Landorf, director of the FIU Office of Global Learning Initiatives. Read more
Multiculturalism works, but teachers still need to speak up
Gurpreet Mahil
(November 30, 2011 | South Asian Post) - Gurpreet (Gurp) Mahil was born in Abbotsford BC, the son of first-generation immigrants from Punjab who put down roots in their Fraser Valley berry farm. Growing up in the 1980s as a turban-wearing student, he experienced racism at school. Read more
Anti-bullying laws are all the rage -- but do they go too far?
by Amy Kingsley
(November 17, 2011 | Las Vegas City Life) - Students circled a bonfire Tuesday night outside Bar + Bistro, on Charleston Boulevard. They weren't singing "Kumbuya," but it wouldn't have been out of place. Instead, the slogan for the evening was "It gets better," a rallying cry for anti-bullying campaigns. This was a rally in support of that cause.
Read more
Reporting Race
Improving media coverage of police brutality cases
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(Maynard Institute | Oct. 6, 2011) – Extensive media coverage of the fatal police beating of a homeless man in Fullerton, Calif. has renewed questions about whether the news media react differently when the victim is white and if news outlets routinely ignore non-lethal police brutality. Read more
African-American perspective is missing in unemployment news
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(Sept. 29, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - Mainstream and online news media are reporting about discrimination against the unemployed across the country, but their stories are failing to focus on the hurdles encountered by African Americans, “whose unemployment rate is more than double that of whites.” Read more
Familiar pattern of minority exclusion in online news coverage
By Jean Marie Brown
(Sept.22, 2011 | Nieman Reports & New America Media) Mainstream news organizations have struggled for decades to widen their coverage to include people of color in all aspects of their lives. In contrast,
the Web was expected to be different as the space is unlimited. But online news outlets are mostly maintaining the familiar pattern. Read more
Newsrooms are getting whiter: A “casualty” of economic woes
Even the newspapers that provide training for minority journalists are having challenges
By Collin Tong
(August 12, 2011 | Source: Crosscut.com) - Diversity in the nation’s newsrooms is becoming the latest casualty of the economic woes facing the American newspaper industry. Continue to read
Related links:
Media is growing more white: What's the FCC thinking about?
1996-2010: Minority interns dropped by 11 percent in U.S. newsrooms
Pictures: New America Media
A multi-media project: "Faces of Foreclosure"
By New America Media and Investigative Reporting Workshop
(Aug. 3, 2011) - New America Media (NAM) collaborated with ethnic news organizations across California, and with the Washington DC-based Investigative Reporting Workshop for the project entitled: FACES OF FORECLOSURE -- REPOSSESSING THE AMERICAN DREAM, a multi-media package on what happened to some of the 1.2 million homeowners in California. Click here to access this project
Interview of a 4-year-old kid in a gunshooting story raises questions among media educators and practitioners
By Bob Butler
(July 21, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - A Chicago television station story about the shooting of two teenagers that used video of a 4-year old boy saying he did not fear violence and wanted his own gun, has raised concerns with journalism educators and others. Read more
A review of "Black Women Redefined"
By Dori Maynard
(July 21, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - Author and media commentator Sophia A. Nelson discusses the ad, black women's images in the media and why she was compelled to write the recently released "Black Woman Redefined." Read more
Diversity and inclusion in management facilitate "creativity" and "innovation"
Finds a Forbes report on Global Diversity and Inclusion
(July 13, 2011) - Based on a survey on 321 industry executives, Forbes Insights, a research arm of the Forbes magazine, in a recent report concludes that "Diversity is a key driver in innovation and is critical of being successful on a global scale." Read more
"Victory" for media diversity? Court strikes down the efforts to relax media ownership rules
(July 8, 2011 | Democracy Now)
- A federal appeals court has overturned part of a Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) rule that made it easier for a single
company, like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, to own a newspaper and a
broadcast outlet in a single market. Read more
Related Article:
Court overturns FCC cross-ownership rules (The New York Times, July 7, 2011)
Online news sites and diversity
(June 30, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - Traditional
news media are criticized for highlighting crime, entertainment, and
sports over the pressing policy issues in their coverage of the
people of color. Do we find the same trend in the coverage of online
news sites? To know the trend in the news coverage of general-audience
and ethnic news sites, click here.
"The Race Card"
By Bob Butler
(June 29, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and Jon Stewart are feuding over a skit on the comedian’s show in which he tried to mimic Cain’s voice and now the conservative and mainstream media are accusing each other of bias, which has kept the story alive for three weeks. Read more
DiversityInc documents the coverage of the New York same-sex marriage law
(June 27, 2011 | DiversityInc) - The DiversityInc staff compiled
a number of reports and editorials distributed and published by
different nonprofit and news organizations.
Click HERE to access the DiversityInc's guide to the coverage of New York same-sex marriage.
Discrimination in the workplace
By Bob Gregg
(June 23, 2011 | DiversityInc) -
In this article, Bob Gregg explored three types of workplace
discrimination--race, sex, and disability--by citing examples from
different institutions. Click HERE to read the entire article.
Related article:
DiversityInc. list of top 10 regional companies promoting workforce diversity
Race and Media
"Saggy pants" debate and the media
by Bob Butler
(June 22, 2011 | Maynard Institute)
- You probably don’t know Deshon Marman but his name has been in the
media for the past week since he was arrested for refusing to pull up
his pants. Read more
“Medicaid’s Race Problem”: What mainstream media could do?
By Nadra Kareem Nittle
(June 21, 2011 |
Maynard Institute) - When House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan unveiled his “Path to Prosperity” budget in April, Republicans widely cheered him on. He became a messiah for the GOP and an instant villain for progressives questioning his plan to privatize Medicare and slash Medicaid funding by $750 billion over the next decade. Read more
Media deportation of Jose Antonio Vargas
By Daniel Denvir
(June 21, 2011 | The Guardian) - Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post, has written an article admitting his status as an undocumented immigrant in the US. Read more
NABJ President's open letter to Network executives and editors:
Where is the diversity in Network news?
(June 21, 2011 | NABJ) -
Dear Network Executives and Editors:
As Scott Pelley replaces Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News and Glenn Beck prepares to leave Fox News Channel, a question looms. Where is the diversity? Read more
Media Diversity
FCC studies assessed the state of viewpoint diversity and minority programming
(June 15, 2011 | FCC & Television Broadcast) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 15 released five studies
that will be used in determining new media ownership rules. The five
studies separately looked at: ownership structures and civic engagement;
radio news consumption; minority radio programming; viewpoint
diversity; and lack of local news on the Internet. Link to the 2010 media ownership studies
Race and Media
A rare example in journalism
"Thoroughly" explored the cause of stress among minority
boys/men in poor neighborhood
(June 9, 2011 | Maynard Institute) - The Maynard Institute identified a story, originally published in the Oakland Tribune
by Beatrice Motamedi, that attempted to dwell on the root causes of
stress encountered by poor minority boys/men and the issues often
ignored in social policies. Click the links below to read the story (in
three parts) posted on the Maynard Institute's website:
Part 1 of 3 | Part 2 of 3 | Part 3 or 3
Related article:
May 25 - “The Gathering Place” by Bob Butler (Maynard Institute)
Report: Media, Children, and Race
(June 8, 2011 | Center on Media and Human Development) - This report documents di"erences in the role of media in the lives of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian children in the United States: which types of media they use, how much
time they spend in various media activities, which media platforms and devices they own, and what the media environment is like in their households. Full Report
Diversity in news media
Lack of diversity in news media leadership and editorial decision
By Bob Butler
(June 2, 2011 | Source: Maynard Institute)
- A recent story on the lack of diversity on workshop panels at new
media conferences highlight a problem that journalists of color have
known about for a long time: the people who call the shots in our
various newsrooms often do not look like us. Read more
“Geronimo” codename and “Paper Tiger”
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
(May 16, 2011 | New America Media Ethno Blog) - Seven-year-old Little Brother came home recently
wearing a spiffy new Cleveland Indians baseball cap with a bright red
Chief Wahoo embroidered on it. A gift. He was so happy to have this
special gift from special friends. But Chief Wahoo? Seriously? Still? Read more
DiversityInc. list of regional companies that promote workforce diversity
By Barbara Frankel
(May 16, 2011 | DiversityInc.) - The DiversityInc. identified top 10 regional companies that played a leading role in promoting workforce diversity. Read more
Reframing the diversity talk
By Dori Maynard
(April 20, 2011) - Lately there has been some discussion about
how we can get the issue of diversity in journalism back on the table.
Clearly the changing demographics and the growing gulf between
journalists and the communities they cover have not sparked a renewed
commitment to ensure that our newsrooms reflect our country. Read more
Online media hires lack diversity
By Yolanda Young
(April 1, 2011 | USA Today)
- As the news media make a major transition to online and mobile
platforms, diversity of staffing seems to be getting lost in the
shuffle. Read more
Women represent only a third of top news media positions
By Romaine Bostick, Bloomberg
(March 22, 2011) - Women represent less than one third of the main decision makers at news companies worldwide as gender inequality leaves top management and governance dominated by males, the International Women’s Media Foundation said. Read more
Faculty diversity in higher academic institutions
(March 31, 2011 | Source: AACU)
- The current newsletter of the American Association of Colleges and
Universities (AACU) has published two articles on "faculty equity" and
challenges with diversifying educators in higher academic institutions.
Maria Maisto and Steve Street wrote an article, "Confronting Contingency:
Faculty Equity and the Goals of Academic Democracy," while Walter Benn Michaels explored the challenges with diversifying the faculty.
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Not enough female voices in opinion pages
by Mallary Jean Tenore
(Feb. 25, 2011, later Updated on Mar. 7, 2011, Source: Poynter)
- Women have made the case for years that there aren’t enough female
voices in the opinion pages. The root of the problem, though, isn’t so
much that news organizations aren’t featuring female contributors; it’s
that they aren’t contributing in the first place. Read more
Institutionalizing diversity, ethics, and civic responsibility in curriculum
By Marilyn Kurata
(Feb 24, 2011 | Diversity & Democracy) - For the
past three years, the Princeton Review has ranked the University of
Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) among its top ten institutions for diversity
within
the student body.
These rankings reflect both UAB's ongoing efforts
to recruit students from underrepresented groups and its institutional
commitments to diversity, ethics, and civic responsibility, which
have been
inextricably linked in the university's vision since
its founding in 1969. Read more
Impact of media image in low adoption of African-American boys
(Feb 23, 2011, Source | Maynard Institute)
- "African American children who enter foster care after the age of 5
are much less likely to be adopted than their White peers and the
situation is more grim for African American males." In this article, Bob Butler has explored whether media image about African-American boys resulted in their low adoption.
Read more
Click here to read the part II of this article
A discussion on "how to fix tech PR industry's diversity deficit"
By Julian McBride
(Feb. 23, 2011, Source: MediaShift)
- Persons of color are an untapped market that many PR agencies have
not yet explored. Looking back at my six years in PR, I can count the
number of brown colleagues I've worked with on less than two hands. Read more
Understanding digital divide
(Feb. 23, 2011, Source: The Washington Post) - Click here to see the archived chat on digital divide with David Sutphen and Aaron Smith.
Tlingit, Haida art well-placed in Smithsonian museum
By Ed Schoenfeld
(Source:
KCAW-FM) - Southeast Alaska art stands out in the collection of the
National Museum of the American Indian. The Smithsonian branch – on
The
Mall in Washington, D.C. – has thousands of Tlingit, Haida
and Tsimshian objects in its collections and many are before the
public.
CoastAlaska’s Ed Schoenfeld paid a trip to the museum to find out
more about what’s on display.
It’s hard not to spot Southeast Alaska Native art in the National Museum of the American Indian.
Read more (First published on KCAW-FM, Nov. 15, 2010)
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"Houston's black newspapers build on legacy"
By Allan Turner
(Feb. 21, 2011 | Houston Chronicle) - It's
just a neighborhood coffee shop in Houston's Third Ward, but it harbors
a sight many city dwellers never see. Inside, an array of newspapers —
tabloids and broadsheets, scrappy or sedate, all bursting with color
and most free — tumble off their racks in a riotous bid for the
reader's eye. Read more
Mixed race couples offering "diversity without complexity" on TV shows
By Eric Deggans, Times TV/Media Critic
(Feb. 20, 2011) - When former Friends star Matthew Perry was developing the perfect foil for his new ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine,
he knew what kind of personality was needed — a boundlessly
optimistic ex-NBA player who would eventually steal the girlfriend of
Perry's selfish, tortured character. Read more
Facebook's new relationship status and gay rights
By Delia Lloyd, Politics Daily
(Feb. 18, 2011) - In case you needed further proof that Facebook truly is revolutionary, look no further. On Thursday, the social networking giant added two new options to its list of relationship status possibilities: "in a civil union" and "in a domestic partnership."
Read more
Black colleges still relevant
By Jesse Muhammad, Special to the NNPA from The Final Call –
(FinalCall.com,
Jan. 31, 2011) - The nation's Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs) have served this country since 1837. They
educated freed slaves, offering educational opportunities not afforded
to Blacks at White institutions during the days of legally mandated
segregation. Read more
This article is reposted from http://www.blackvoicenews.com/
Women under-represented in senior Ad jobs: IPA report
(Jan. 30, 2011, Source: guardian.co.uk) -
Women are severely under-represented in senior
management positions in the UK advertising industry, according to a
report by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). Read more
Race and Media
"Separate but unequal"
By Bob Butler
(January 25, 2011, Maynard Institute)
- Two shootings at or near schools in Los Angeles last week highlight
how the media sometimes fail to dig below the surface when a Black male
youth is involved. Read more
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Book review
'Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies.' Edited by Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude. 2008
By Brian Bialkowski
(Repost from higheredjobs.com on Jan. 10, 2011) - The product of a four-year project funded by the Ford Foundation, Doing Diversity in Higher Education's
case studies review diversity efforts at a variety of institutions,
including publics, privates, historically black colleges and
universities, and the Ivy League. Read more
The white world of sports journalism
By
Dexter Rogers
(January 3, 2011; Source: Colorlines)
-
January is a month of sports news. From college bowl games to
NFL playoffs, we hide from the cold and indulge our inner fanatics.
As someone who’s made a career of chronicling sports, it’s both an
exciting and troubling time, because it reminds me that sports media
remains a bastion of white privilege in journalism. Read more
Media and immigrant
The use of words “illegal immigrants” in news reports
By Leo Laurence
(September 22,
2010, Source*: A SPJ blog "Who's news") - Mainstream journalists use
the phrase “illegal immigrant” regularly when referring to Latinos who
lack documents to be in this country. Yet, use of the phrase is
inconsistent with a fundamental doctrine in our Constitution. Read more
* “Who’s news,” a part of Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) blog.
Hours before rally to restore sanity: a moment less than sane
By Dori J. Maynard
(November 10, 2010, Source: Maynard Institute)
- The Maynard Institute’s Fault Line Framework is a diversity tool
that teaches people to talk to each other with the goal of
understanding. Dori J. Maynard, who has been refining the framework,
will write a regular feature about living on the Fault Lines. This is
her first entry. Read more
How to add meaning, context to census data about minorities
by Angie Chuang
(Aug. 2, 2010, Source:Poynter Online)
- The Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon recently invited me to
Portland, Ore., with an unusual request: Lead a panel discussion to help
us understand who we are as a community. Continue Reading
Does the media overreport violence, underreport unemployment?
by Alex Gronke
(Source: Maynard Institute, August 14, 2010) - "Unemployment
reporting is not just removed from political and social context, said
Duane Poe of Solutions for Community, a consulting firm in Oakland,
it’s also often removed from history. How, for example, does the
current unemployment rate for men of color compare to historical
rates?"
Read the entire article
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Diversity as a business strategy
By Donna Hamlin
(Source: Helium, July 27, 2010) - "The topic of
diversity is all the rage now. From board rooms to overall employee
mix, to classroom composition, professionals are looking at diversity-
based on differing notions about the impact it may have on overall
performance." Read the entire article
"Skin whitening, tanning, and vaseline’s controversial Facebook Ad campaign"
By danah boyd, posted on apophenia (a blog site)
(July 20, 2010) – “Growing up as a white girl
in Pennsylvania, I was taught that being tan was beautiful. My
wealthier classmates would go on vacations to Florida in the winter,
coming back with the most glorious tans.” Click here to continue reading
"Oscar Grant, Mehserle and the Media"
By Dori J. Maynard, Maynard Institute
(Source: Maynard Institute enewsletter, July 9,
2010) - "While the media gears up to cover the verdict in the trial of
former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, charged with killing
22-year old Oscar Grant last year, there are those who believe
reporters may be contributing to whatever violence might take place." Read more
Story of a High School Journalism Institute for Promoting Newsroom Diversity
"Giving back through journalism"
(Source: Oregon Daily Emerald, July 6, 2010) - Tyree Harris, opinion editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald,
in this opinion piece shared the experience as a trainer of high school
students with "underrepresented backgrounds" at a High School
Journalism Institute, a joint initiative between the Oregonian and Oregon State to promote newsroom diversity. Read more
"Why doesn't MSNBC embrace more diversity?"
By Eric Deggans, The Huffington Post
(June 21, 2010) - In this article, Deggans is critical
about MSNBC as the network's prime-time news anchors and show hosts lack
ethnic diversity. Read more
Campus diversity and ethnic identity development
By Anna M. Ortiz and Silvia J. Santos
(Source: Diversity & Democracy,
13(2), 2010) - "Colleges and universities increasingly embrace
diversity in its multiple forms, and many have established diversity
as an important institutional value. But definitions of diversity vary across campuses . . ."
Read full artilce
"It is time for the media to integrate the race beat"
By Dori J. Maynard (April 16, 2010, Maynard Institute)
-
"During the debate over health care reform, some white protesters
hurled racial epithets at black elected officials and even spit on
one. Later that same week, the Atlanta Journal Constitution
reported on a movement to have people write in "Confederate Southern
American" as their race on the 2010 Census. Most recently, the
governor of Virginia declared April Confederate History Month,
initially issuing a proclamation that failed to mention slavery." Read More
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Native American Perspective
"Sooner's Bradford is Accidental Cherokee Hero"
By Thayer Evans, The New York Times (October 10, 2008)
Click here to read the full story.
“A key to newsroom diversity: Talk”
By Andrew Alexander (The Washington Post Omblog, March 29, 2010)
Is expanding newsroom diversity in numbers and
percentages enough to reflect diversity in journalism? In this article,
Andrew Alexander has brought up another important issue, newsroom
manager’s conversation or “talk” with non-minorities in newsroom.
Read full story
“Gwen Ifill calls for greater diversity in journalism field”
By Neal J. Riley (March 26, 2010, The Daily Free Press)
Prominent black journalist Gwen Ifill thinks
that journalism still has a race problem. Ifill made this observation
while speaking at the Emerson College on March 25.
Ifill, who has reported on political issues for NBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post, said “her race has been an obstacle throughout her career from when she started at her first newspaper job at The Boston Herald.” Read full story
“Comcast and NBC’s Real Diversity Issues”
Megan Tady (March 25, 2010, The Huffington Post)
Comcast's Board of Directors includes only one woman and one
person of color, while the network channel NBC has no Black
programming. With such poor diversity record, the merger of Comcast and
NBC has become “bad news” for media ownership diversity. In this
article, Megan Tady referred to a Free Press study that finds that
media ownership by a woman or person of color decreases with
consolidation of media markets. Read full story
“Who Will Defend the Rights of People of Color to an Open Internet?”
By Malkia A. Cyril (March 25, 2010, The Huffington Post)
“In the fight over who will control the Internet, big
companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast are hoping they will win
the pass on FCC oversight and public interest protection.” Such a FCC
verdict may allow big companies to make “as much profit as they can
even if the service they provide is gated and discriminatory.”
In this context, some civil
rights are concerned about “protecting the public from discrimination
online -especially the poor and people of color- from the proven abuses
of Big Media companies,” which may result in “those companies refusing
to build out high speed broadband to rural communities and poor urban
communities.” Read full story.
“Women More Likely to Leave Newspaper Careers”
(Source:
AEJMC) – “More female journalists are leaving their jobs at
newspapers, citing their own feelings of cynicism and exhaustion,
according to a recent survey published in Newspaper Research Journal.”
The survey also found that “more than 60 percent of the
female journalists surveyed said they either intend to leave the field
or “don’t know” if they will. Those who said they were intending to
leave the newspaper business expressed feelings of burnout.”
Scott Reinardy, an assistant professor in the William Allen
White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of
Kansas, conducted this study, which was published in the summer 2009
issue of Newspaper Research Journal. Download the paper
What is diversity? Introducing fault lines
Read this article on Maynard Institute's web site
"'Good Hair' Harrassment"
In this blog post, E-K. Daufin,
professor of communication at the Alabama State University, explains a
reality of Black women at workplaces. Daufin criticizes those who think
that Black women's natural hairstyle is not professional.
Daufin argues: “Dreading” my hair allowed me to stop dreading
my natural self." Read More
"Outburst at Obama prompts discussion about covering cultural divides"
October
16, 2009 (by Angie Chuang, Poynter Online): “Remember before the
summer of 2009, when we were still living in post-racial America?
Between the arrest of Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr. in July, and Joe Wilson's ‘You Lie’ comment during Obama's health care speech last month, it's tough to figure out how to have a productive conversation about race, whether in the news media or in a classroom.” Read more
"Emmy telecast was lacking in diversity"
(Source: Los Angeles Times) By Greg Braxton September 22, 2009
“If trophies were handed out for promoting diversity in
nationally televised award programs, CBS' telecast of the Primetime Emmy
Awards would not stand much of a chance to win.” Read full article here.
"Erasing Katrina through media neglect"
(Source: Citizen-Times.com) By Julie Hollar, September 21, 2009
“The devastation wrought by
both the hurricane itself and the government's inept response prompted
remarkably critical corporate media coverage that promised to fight for
Katrina survivors and change the way we talk about poverty and race.”
Read full article here.
"Solo Operator of Native American Times Passes One-Year Mark"
(Source: Poynter Online, Sept. 9, 2009) - Lisa Snell, editor and publisher of Native American Times, spent
about 100 hours a week to perform the roles of "designer, writer,
online publisher, editor, and more." Snell is the sole operator of Native American Times since
September 1, 2008, when she purchased the newspaper from the past
owner. Snell, formerly a graphic designer with some journalism
experiences, was able to increase the circulation of the newspaper by
30% and subscription rate by 35% in last one year. Read the full interview of Lisa Snell.
"What Does the Future of Diversity Look Like?"
Aug 14, 2009 (Poynter Online): Keith Woods writes this post in the context of layoffs.
Click HERE to read the entire post.
"Ethical guidelines for covering 'the other' Sotomayor coverage fell into
some traps"
August
7, 2009 (Source: Maynard Institute) - In this article, Sally Lehrman,
Knight-Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Chair in Journalism and the Public
Interest at Santa Clara University, analyzed the news coverage of the
confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated as
the “first-ever Hispanic” Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Read the full article.
"Diversity Does Matter"
ForbesWoman writer Heidi Brown interviewed Siemens' first chief diversity officer, Jill Lee, who thinks that
"inclusion is not just about equal opportunities for individuals. It's a bottom-line necessity." Click here to read the interview (Source: Forbes.com, July 21, 2009).
"Achieving Impressive R.O.I. with the Gay Consumer Market"
by Howard Buford, President & CEO, Prime Access, Inc.
The gay
consumer market, known as the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)
market, is fast changing. The launch of the Logo cable channel in 2005
brought the first highly-targeted (and highly-efficient) television
buying opportunity to the gay media mix. Read More
Interview with Milton Coleman:
"Diversity Isn't a Social Experiment; It's an Industry Imperative"
Gregory Favre posted the interview on the web site of Poynter Online on July 6, 2009.
Click here to read the interview. Milton Coleman is senior editor of The Washington Post.
"U.S. Supreme Court sides with white firefighters in race bias case"
By Chris Rizo, Legal Newsline
June 29, 2009(Washington): The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that
white firefighters were unfairly denied promotions because of their
race. Read More
Special Report: Journalists in Exile 2009
By Karen Phillips
(Source: CPJ) - Top three reasons for exile: 1) violence or threat, 2) threat of imprisonment, and 3) harassment. Click here to read the full Report
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Challenges remain for ethnic media despite growth
From this year’s National Ethnic Media Expo and Awards, we came to
know that ethnic media’s audience is growing in the U.S. But attendees
in that event also expressed the challenges they are facing because of
economic downturn. In this article, Angie Chuang has analyzed the
challenges of ethnic media. Read more
A 2009 NAM Poll: "Ethnic Media Outlets Gain in Readers and Viewers"
New America Media (NAM) Executive Director Sandy Close
writes: Technological advancements have dramatically altered how
Americans receive news and information each day. But a somewhat
surprising development has been the sustained growth of ethnic
media, even as major daily newspapers struggle to keep their
readers.
The full results of the poll will be released in the Expo on June 4-5 in Atlanta. The NAM poll was conducted by Bendixen & Associates. Read the report
Related Articles:
"Mainstream and ethnic news organizations should partner to deliver news"
(The Seattle Times, May 27, 2009)
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“Pulitzer Winner Says Now's the Time for Racial Talk”
May
22, 2009: Douglas A. Blackmon, the Atlanta journalist and the 2009
Pulitzer Prize winner for “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement
of Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II," said that “the Obama era
is the time for more, not less discussion of race.” Blackmon, Atlanta
bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, made this point on Friday on a
public radio show, "The Michael Eric Dyson Show."
Audio of the show. Read the REPORT on Richard Prince’s Journal-ism.
"Reporting on the Intersection of Race and Gay Marriage"
In
this article, Angie Chuang writes about a tension in the intersection
of race and sexual orientation. Chuang documents how a bill in
Washington D.C. Council on recognizing gay marriages in other states has
invoked one "civil rights movement" to speak against another
"civil-rights movement." (Source: Diversity at Work, Poynter Online, May
19, 2009) Read the article
Experts share ideas about the better coverage of race
Sally Lehrman explains the ideas expressed by experts at a meeting on “racial formation in the 21st century” at the University of Oregon in April, 2009. (Source: Diversity at Work, Poynter Online, May 5, 2009) Read the article
"President Obama reaches out to ethnic media, journalists respond"
Michele
Salcedo, in this article, observes that Obama administration's decision
to reach out to ethnic media recognizes the fact that diverse groups of
people, particulalry ethnic minorities, depend on diverse sources for
news and information. An editor of a popular black magazine commented
that two-thirds of their readers do not depend on the mainstream media
for news. (Source: Diversity at Work, Poynter Online, April 10, 2009) Read the article
"Do Public Schools 'Get' LGBT Issues?"
In this article, DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti answers questions from the audience.
(Source: DiversityInc, 2009, May 4) Read the article
"Recognizing Race-Related Angles in Stories about Health, Crime & Other Beats"
Sally Lehrman posted this article on the "Diversity at Work" web site of the Poynter Online. (Source: Diversity at Work, Poynter Online, March 24, 2009) Read the article
Study Shows Indian Immigrants Embrace Dual Identity
in U.S.
Many Asian Indian immigrants
in the U.S. are embracing American culture while
they are also upholding traditions and values of
their roots, “rich Indian culture.” A New study by
New American Dimensions and interTrend
Communications finds that Asian Indian immigrants
are proud of their Indian culture and they consider
themselves to be both Indian and American. Read the report
“The danger of losing the ethnic media"
By Sally Lehrman
Sally
Lehrman, the Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News
Endowed Chair for Journalism in the Public Interest
at Santa Clara University, analyzes the
consequences of declining advertising and the other
financial reasons in this time of economic downturn.
Lehrman observes: With the ever-deepening cuts
across the news business, these losses may seem
worth no more than a shrug.
Full Article
(Source: The Boston Globe,
March 5, 2009)
"Evaluating Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Diversity
for Personal and Social Responsibility"
(February 2009, Source:
Diversity Web, AAC&U)
Read the article
AAJA BlogTalkRadio:
"Journalism Beyond the Traditional Newsroom"
(Jan 29,
2009)
Listen
From the
AEJMC Members Forum
"Students
are postgay, JMC education mostly pregay"
Click HERE to
read the blog post
Is it right to say that the suspect is black? Or Latino? Or White?
By Steve Parker, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Click HERE to read the full story
From the blog "STOPBIGMEDIA.com"
"MLK to Obama: Reflections on
Racial Barrier in the Media"
Click
HERE to read the blog post
Martin Luther King Jr. Documents Available
(Sources: Morehouse College, Atlanta, and
The Martin Luther King, JR. Research and Education
Institute, Stanford University)
January 16, 2009 (Baton Rouge): A 10,000-piece
collection of handwritten notes and unpublished
sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. will be made
publicly available by Morehouse College in
Atlanta, from which King graduated in 1948. The
King Papers Project at the Martin Luther King
Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford
University, also produces a comprehensive
multi-volume collection of King’s most important
correspondence, sermons, publications, speeches,
and unpublished manuscripts, which are available
online.
READ MORE
Picture source: Morehouse King Collection
Web site
A POYNTER Report
"Demographic Changes Reflect Growing Need for
Diversity Coverage"
This report is based on
the interview of Bobbi Bowman, diversity and
membership director for the American Society of
Newspaper Editors (ASNE). Bowman talks about the
opportunities of doing independent journalism to
promote diverse issues and ideas in the age of
digital media. She also observes, "It is no accident
that the circulation for daily U.S. newspapers
started declining in the 1980s -- about the same
time the current increase in minorities in the U.S.
population became noticeable. Demographic changes
are a significant factor in daily newspapers'
decline." Read More
A CIIJ Report
“The Health of Ethnic
Media: Needs and Opportunities”
This study offers a snapshot of the health and
resiliency
of the nation’s ethnic news organizations from the
perspective
of the proprietors, publishers, editors, and
reporters. This study
also identifies the needs and impediments of ethnic
media. Read More
"Don't Question My Credibility Because I'm Black."
Barbara Ciara, president of the National Association
of Black Journalists (NABJ), wrote this article in
response to a question, which we think timely, "Is it possible for
journalists of color to cover the Obama campaign
without bias?" Read More (source: NABJ)
"Campaigning for Better
Coverage of Race in the Presidential Election."
Click
here
to read the article written by Keith Woods
(Source: Poynter Institute)
"Diverse newsroom contributes
to public trust of press: Inside the First
Amendment."
Click
here to read the
report. (Source: First Amendment Center)
"Black journalists see little
progress in adding reporters, editors of color"
". .
. because of layoffs and hiring freezes, the
percentage of journalists of color in daily
newsrooms actually grew by a tiny margin, to 13.52%
from 13.43% of all journalists. Blacks make up the
largest number and percentage of journalists of
color with 2,790 or 5.3 percent of the workforce,
according to the survey."
Click
here to read the report (Source: NABJ)
New Media Women Entrepreneurs
The McCormick Tribune
Foundation launched the New Media Women
Entrepreneurs initiative to address issues of
opportunity, innovation, recruitment and retention
of women in journalism. The organization will honor
a New Media Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in an
awards program, research issues women's consumption
and creation of news and produce a day-long Women
Entrepreneurs Summit.
New Media Women Entrepreneurs
is seeking to fund three women-led projects. Three
winners will receive $10,000 to fund their ideas and
will have to blog about the process over the year.
For more information,
see
http://www.newmediawomen.org/
NCA's new journal
The National Communication Association has launched
a new journal dedicated to "research that cuts
across academic boundaries to focus on
international, intercultural and indigenous
communication issues." The first issue of Journal of
International and Intercultural Communication was to
be made available in February. For more information,
see
http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?bid=9008
The 2007
Report: Women and Minorities in the Newsroom
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HERE
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