How newsrooms track the diversity of their sources can lead to tradeoffs in time spent, information collected A new research study offers a roadmap for newsrooms that may want to analyze which voices routinely get quoted and ignored August 29, 2024 Cydney Grannan
Opinion | Press Forward open call puts underrepresented communities first Push focuses on bridging significant gaps in local news coverage April 30, 2024 Dale R. Anglin
Opinion | Flood or drought, we’re filling the pipeline for young, diverse talent in journalism CalMatters and the Asian American Journalists Association partnered to connect California students with newsrooms, policymakers and scientists February 19, 2024 Naomi Tacuyan Underwood
With two months left in the year, Gannett journalists question status of company diversity reports In 2020, Gannett promised annual demographic reports. But the company still has not released one for this year. October 26, 2023 Angela Fu
Opinion | In a new era of journalism, philanthropy must pivot To properly serve communities of color, funders must ‘radically rethink’ current funding practices September 7, 2023 Tracie Powell
Here are the 29 leaders selected for Poynter’s third and final Leadership Academy for Women in Media in 2023 Candice Fortman, program alum and executive director of Outlier Media, will give the keynote August 30, 2023 Mel Grau
Meet the next Leadership Academy for Women in Media cohort in 2023 Plus, new impact survey shows the long-term benefits of this Poynter program May 10, 2023 Mel Grau
Meet the first Leadership Academy for Women in Media cohort in 2023 These 31 leaders will convene at Poynter March 26-31 for a week of transformational learning, led by new program director Kate Cox March 16, 2023 Mel Grau
Opinion | Two years after the Atlanta shootings, equitable coverage of the AAPI community remains elusive Good journalism powered by diverse newsrooms is essential to democracy's future, especially as we move toward becoming a majority-minority country. March 16, 2023 Naomi Tacuyan Underwood
Journalists must understand the power of community engagement to earn trust Residents of neighborhoods that have been misrepresented have lost faith that coverage will ever improve. February 28, 2023 Kelly Chan
Opinion | Here are some tips for covering Indigenous communities, for non-Natives Reporters think they do ‘marginalized communities’ a favor by covering them. But that coverage is too often extractive and riddled with racist tropes. February 14, 2023 Valerie Vande Panne
Asian Americans severely underrepresented among on-air TV journalists, report finds The Asian American Journalists Association found that in the top 20 markets, 24% of stations do not have any AAPI reporters on air. December 7, 2022 Angela Fu
Understanding communities starts with open conversations in the newsroom Organizations join to create a new Dimensions of Difference guide to help journalists understand their biases and better cover their communities December 7, 2022 Joy Mayer
Short film shines a light on the inequities of being “Black in the Newsroom” A first-time director and a former journalist talk about how systemic racism has led to unfairness in pay and coverage December 1, 2022 Pete Croatto
NLA scraps 2021 diversity survey results after finding ‘data integrity’ issues The last year for which the NLA has published industry-wide diversity data is 2019. August 18, 2022 Angela Fu