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Journalists of Color in Public Media


Recent Figures Show That Media Is Still Overwhelming White - Forbes

When looking specifically at the racial diversity among journalists, although racial diversity has increased from previous years, journalism is ...

How might journalism address the needs of women of color?

Public media journalists like Priska Neely and April Dembosky have both reported on the systemic inequity that Black women and women of color suffer in ...

The National Association of Black Journalists: NABJ

TESTIMONIALS · “An amazing organization for connecting journalists of color…” - E. Deggans · NABJ is a vital organization that is truly needed in this country. - ...

Race and leadership in the news media 2023: evidence from five ...

In Brazil, despite a third of journalists being people of colour (34%), like in 2021 and 2022, there remain no top editors of colour in our ...

The Great Resignation: Why journalists of color left the industry

It's no secret that the demographic makeup of U.S. newsrooms seldom reflect the diversity of the communities they cover. In fact, a 2018 Pew ...

The Real Story Behind NPR's Current Problems

... public broadcasting for a generation. It was a longtime fear at ... Especially given the well-reported exodus of top journalists of color ...

Reporting as Journalists of Color: Why We Need to Add “Safety” to ...

It seems everyone in journalism is talking about the importance of diversity in the newsroom. What's missing in the conversation are the ...

A Guide to Resources for Local News Publishers of Color

The racial reckoning in media has led media foundations, associations and training programs to reset their priorities to put publishers of color ...

Public Media for All

We are a diverse coalition of public media workers, led by people of color. We are raising awareness of the negative effects of a lack of diversity, ...

Public Media Journalists Association | PMJA

Public Media Journalists Association supports, empowers and advocates for journalists working in public media. In that endeavor we seek to foster high ethical ...

Reckoning With Race in Journalism : It's Been a Minute - NPR

Now, Black journalists and other journalists of color have been sharing their experiences on social media and leading a public debate over what ...

Diversity in the newsroom can build better media. Here's why

The state of diversity in the newsroom is no exception: according to a 2016 Pew Research Center analysis, just 23% of newsroom employees were ...

WaPo and Poynter Institute announce 29 journalists of color ...

Poynter began the Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media at Poynter six years ago and partnered with The Post in 2019. In total, Poynter has ...

When Journalism and Racism Collide: Perspectives of ... - YouTube

... Racism Collide: Perspectives of Black Journalists. 39 views · 3 days ago Another View The Radio Show Podcast ...more. WHRO Public Media. 6.45K.

Here are the journalists chosen for Poynter's 2023 Power of Diverse ...

Annie Aguiar, audience engagement producer, The Poynter Institute · Simón Cázares, freelance radio reporter and producer · Josiah R. · Ana Diaz, ...

Opinion | Soledad O'Brien on the Racism Faced by Journalists of Color

According to the report, from 2004 to 2019, only 38 percent of newsrooms gained racial diversity, while 15 percent became less diverse. Moreover ...

Black Journalists Hope Media's Racial Reckoning Can Create Change

In this reported op-ed, journalist Jewel Wicker examines what the Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 has meant in the media, one industry of many reckoning ...

How journalists of color walk the line in newsrooms - PRI's The World

PBS Newshour's Hari Sreenivasan, Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa, NPR's Keith Woods, and WGBH's Callie Crossley talked about the increasing fear of ...

Newsroom diversity: 7 studies to know on race in journalism

PhillyCAM, a mostly volunteer-run public access television network, has for years offered a platform for citizen voices. The network had ...

Why is public media so white? - Current.org

She announced a goal to recruit people of color to two-thirds of the open positions at New York Public Radio, to include staff on hiring panels ...