Category: Diversity
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Institute for Media and Public Trust secures major grant to propel Journalists of Color training program
By Jim Boren In a significant commitment toward fostering diversity and inclusion in San Joaquin Valley journalism, the Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State has been awarded a $201,000 grant to continue its visionary Journalists of Color training program. The California Endowment grant will help fortify the ongoing success of its pioneering…
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Training program aimed at creating a pipeline of diverse journalists announces a new cohort of students
The second cohort of the Fresno-area Journalists of Color training program has been selected, and now there are 14 students in the program designed to create a pathway that will offer greater diversity to the reporting staffs of San Joaquin Valley newsrooms. The students are paid $300 a month during the academic year and can…
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America’s newsrooms should be reporting their diversity numbers, and this proposal might finally encourage them to be more transparent
The News Leaders Association has been surveying newsrooms for more than 40 years to determine how many journalists of color are gathering and reporting news across the country. But in recent years, most newsrooms stopped reporting their diversity numbers. These are the same newsrooms, by the way, that preach diversity and transparency for other professions.…
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Newsroom diversity: Microsoft joins our students of color journalism training program in Fresno
We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has become a major sponsor of our program to diversify Fresno-area newsrooms by training students of color in our community to become journalists. Microsoft joins the California Endowment and the James B. McClatchy Foundation as major supporters of this diversity effort. We appreciate Microsoft’s commitment to our five-year…
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We’re celebrating our 3rd birthday with an increased focus on improving media literacy and exposing disinformation
When we established the Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State three years ago, I was asked if our work to identify fake news and promote media literacy represented short-term problems that would sort themselves out in a few years on their own. We now know that these challenges not only aren’t going…
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A major failure of U.S. media organizations has been their inability (or unwillingness) to diversify their reporting staffs
It has been more than 40 years since the American Society of News Editors adopted a goal of having newsrooms match the racial and ethnic make-up of the general population. Clearly, media outlets have had more than enough time to determine a strategy to hire journalists that reflect the diversity of their communities. But the much-discussed…
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Fresno training program created to increase the number of journalists of color in San Joaquin Valley newsrooms
We believe that America’s newsrooms should reflect the diversity of the communities that they cover. Unfortunately, that’s mostly not the case, and we at the Institute for Media and Public Trust are working with partner organizations to launch a program that will mentor young journalists of color. The goal is to increase the diversity in…
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