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Does
Your Coverage Reflect Your Community? A newsroom
lacking in diversity needs to be especially aware of the
need to make special efforts to reflect the community’s
diversity in news coverage, photography and feature stories.
Diversity in content is not simply a matter of political
correctness or altruism. In an increasingly diverse culture
where news organizations are competing with many other attractions
for reader attention, diversity is a matter of economic sense.
- Ten
tips for retaining minority journalists The
issue of newsroom retention is especially acute with minorities,
who have historically been far less represented in U.S. newsrooms
than they are in the population. Leslie
Ansley offers these tips for retaining minority journalists.
- The
Soft Handshake... And 9 other myths about interviewing good candidates
Misunderstandings across cultural lines become more common
as the working world grows more diverse. Trusting assumptions
or stereotypes can lead to hiring mistakes and missed opportunities.
If you are unaware of what the other person is thinking, you may
be misunderstood yourself. Use questions rather than assumptions
to get at the truth, says Joe
Grimm.
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- Let's
Do It Better This is the website for Let's Do It Better,
the Columbia workshop on journalism, race and ethnicity. It offers
all the projects that were discussed at last June's workshop on
race at Columbia.
- Maynard
Institute for Journalism Education This website involves
how to teach the fault lines philosophy at framing your coverage
through the so-called fault lines of race, ethnicity, gender,
age, geography and class.
- These
two websites can provide you with a great deal of information
on the coverage of race in America:
- Freedom
Forum Search the Freedom Forum website for some of the
ideas they are working on in the hiring front.
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