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Dear Maynard Family,
The Maynard 200 fellowship sessions recently came to a close and we welcome the latest fellows into the Maynard family! We were so fortunate to have contributions from over 60 faculty members including journalism insights from the fireside chat with Kevin Merida, executive editor of the LA Times. Check out more details below and stay tuned for additional announcements about our award winning Maynard 200 Media Entrepreneurs coming soon.
Along with the growth of our Maynard family, join us in celebrating exciting news from colleagues like board member Aprill O. Turner, Maynard 200 fellow Raji Ramanathan, as well as our own co-executive director Evelyn Hsu, who was featured in the Asian American Journalists Association oral history project this week. See Evelyn behind the scenes in the social media highlights below.
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Aprill O. Turner Receives Special Honors Award from NABJ
The Maynard Institute congratulates board member Aprill O. Turner for being named the Special Honors recipient of the 2021 Patricia L. Tobin Media Professional Award by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
“It makes me proud to have had the opportunity to meet Pat Tobin and witness the large impact that she had. It also makes me proud to follow in her footsteps, especially in the love that we both have for public relations, seeing other Black professionals excel in it and how much we both love NABJ.” Read more...
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Journalism Insights from the Maynard 200 Keynote Fireside Chat with Kevin Merida
In conversation with Maynard Institute’s co-executive director Martin Reynolds, Merida shared insights from his journalism career, from his earliest days to today as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Discussion topics ranged from the role of technology to workplace culture in shaping the future of journalism.
"As citizens of this workplace, what are we going to stand for? How are we gonna operate? What is the environment of inclusion? What do we do that brings ourselves closer to our community? Culture defines an environment where everybody is welcome, where we can accommodate all kinds of people,” Merida said.
We are grateful to Merida and all members of this year’s Maynard 200 faculty who led sessions and all who continue to serve as mentors. Read the blog for highlights from the fireside chat as well as the full 2021 faculty roster.
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It’s a great time to invest in Black- and POC-led media
By Farai Chideya
Chideya is a veteran journalist and now a media entrepreneur who hosts and produces Our Body Politic, a podcast unapologetically reporting how women of color impact today's major political events. In this Columbia Journalism Review article Chideya breaks down the reasons why "Most BIPOC creators are forced to self-finance, or fold. This model is not sustainable, and has to change." Read more...
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A secretive hedge fund is gutting newsrooms
By McKay Coppins
Coppins takes readers inside Alden Global Capital, "a secretive hedge fund that has quickly, and with remarkable ease, become one of the largest newspaper operators in the country." The Atlantic article focuses on the hedge fund's purchase of the Chicago Tribune and the alarming trend of vulture capitalism threatening the industry, compounding the need for more diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
"What threatens local newspapers now is not just digital disruption or abstract market forces. They’re being targeted by investors who have figured out how to get rich by strip-mining local-news outfits. The model is simple: Gut the staff, sell the real estate, jack up subscription prices, and wring as much cash as possible out of the enterprise until eventually enough readers cancel their subscriptions that the paper folds, or is reduced to a desiccated husk of its former self." Read more...
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The “here’s where we’re coming from” statement in journalism
By Jay Rosen
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen wrote about the logic of viewpoint disclosure in journalism as a contrast to the industry's myth of objectivity.
Rosen predicts, "In the years ahead, bidding for trust by means of viewpoint and agenda disclosure will, I think, become more common, especially in newsletter, niche, investigative, climate, and point-of-view journalism. Taking a neutral stance and asking to be trusted because you’re uncommited to everything except getting the story right, accurately and fairly— that will continue to characterize the work of the big national newsrooms and public broadcasters." Read the blog.
Rosen's grad students have also started collecting "here's where I'm coming from" statements from journalists. Read more about their project at ComingFrom.org.
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Project Manager (Temporary/Contract) – Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, Anywhere (Remote)
Paid Spring 2022 Virtual Intern CNN Digital National Race and Police (Part-time) – CNN, Atlanta, GA (or Remote)
Audience Engagement Editor, Food – Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA
Recruitment Manager, Report for America – The GroundTruth Project, New York, NY
Investigative Editor - Reveal – The Center for Investigative Reporting, San Francisco Bay Area, CA (or Remote)
Features Editor, The New Yorker – Condé Nast, New York, NY
Technical Director / Digital Engineer / Broadcast Technician – Indiana Public Media, Bloomington, IN
Culture and Narrative Fellowship (6-month) – The Opportunity Agenda, Anywhere in U.S. (Remote)
Graduate Research Assistants - The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy (Remote)
Communications Manager - Resolve Philly (Remote)
Capitol Reporter - CalMatters, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Photo Editor - CalMatters, (Remote)
Water Reporter - CalMatters, (Remote)
Commentary Editor - CalMatters, (Remote)
News Editors (Full-time and Part-time contract) - CalMatters, Sacramento, CA
Producer, Social Media – Southern California Public Radio KPCC/ LAist.com, Pasadena, CA
Major Gifts Fundraiser - Southerly, (Remote in the southern United States)
Senior Writer – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems (Grant Opportunity) – USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism
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