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ONLINE EVENTS
🙋🏾 Thursday 23 September. See how your newsroom can effectively address issues around diversity. The event will cover a range of issues including LGBTQIA+ representation, coverage of migration and refugees and efforts to decolonise the media. | News Impact Summit
👐 28 October - 18 November. Register today for a masterclass on audience engagement strategies. The four-week course run by Adam Tinworth will look at social and search, tools like podcasts and newsletters, and planning and execution. | Journalism.co.uk
WE ARE READING...
🌍 A landmark call to action. "The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5C and to restore nature." Editors of 200 health journals worldwide urge action to address climate change, in a joint editorial. | British Medical Journal
🇦🇫 A tragic loss. "I lost my best friend, we were journalists fleeing Kabul." Zakarya Hassani, a journalist who fled Afghanistan, talks about his friend and fellow reporter Alireza Ahmadi whose recent "tragic and untimely death has been particularly heart-wrenching for the Afghan journalist community." | Al Jazeera
🇷🇺 An expulsion. "I told him I was a journalist: 'Do I look like a threat?'" The BBC's Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford files her last report from Russia before being expelled. She says that the silencing of the free press is central to suppressing critical voices. | BBC
🇺🇸 A regression. Britain is moving backwards in recognising institutional racism with "the previous head of the Society of Editors’ comments on institutional racism [falling] into that picture," says Lester Holloway, incoming editor of The Voice, Britain's only black national newspaper. | Guardian
✅ Subscriptions. To combat 'subscription fatigue', outlets across the US, including the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and Quartz, are creating senior roles, and expanding teams, focused on encouraging new subscribers and retaining existing ones, writes Sara Guaglione. | Digiday
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