Will simplifying systemic racism make newsrooms pay attention?

40 Years of Driving Belonging in Journalism

Dear Maynard Family,

Last week, we hosted episode five of Belonging in the News, where Soleil Ho emphasized that the focus of her writing is "to use food and restaurants to start a larger social conversation" around topics such as labor, inequality and racism. Find a link to the recording below.

Another compelling resource recently published in the Columbia Journalism Review is a rubric to analyze coverage of marginalized communities created by professor and DEI researcher, Letrell Deshan Crittenden. He makes the case for a simplified approach to addressing systemic racism in newsrooms in the accompanying op-ed. Find Crittenden's op-ed and more race and diversity media headlines below.

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Evelyn Hsu and Martin G. Reynolds
Co-Executive Directors
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

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Belonging in the News: Part Five with Soleil Ho
In the fifth episode of Belonging in the News, co-executive director of the Maynard Institute Evelyn Hsu discussed belonging and antiracist journalism practices in the context of food and culture reporting with San Francisco Chronicle food critic and podcast co-host, Soleil Ho.
Watch and share the recording here.

Oakland Voices is a six-month program designed to empower Oakland residents to tell stories about their communities.

Pipe Dreams: Makeshift Living in Oakland is Nothing New
By Kat Ferreira
Oakland Voices alumna, Kat Ferreira, explores the rapid gentrification that has affected Oakland’s trajectory and forever altered its character.

Director of Inclusion & Audience Growth – American Press Institute, Arlington, VA

Director - International Women's Media Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Media Relations Manager - International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)

Chief Development Officer – Institute for Nonprofit News, Remote

Public Interest Cybersecurity Program Director – UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, Berkeley, CA

Staff Analyst – NewsGuard, New York, NY

Deputy Editor, Special Reports – NewsGuard, New York, NY

Editor, Business & Finance – NewsGuard, New York, NY

Media Relations Manager, The Internet Archive – Remote

Deputy Director of Local News Transformation – API, Arlington, VA

Program Manager, Philadelphia Ecosystem Support – The Knight Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund, Philadelphia, PA

Health Reporter – Cal Matters, Sacramento, CA

News Revenue Fellowship – LION Publishers

Maynard Institute's Maynard 200 Fellowship Director, Odette Alcazaren-Keeley, will co-host the California Ethnic Media Awards 2020. Ethnic Media Services and California Black Media announced that two distinguished veterans of ethnic media – Odette Alcazaren-Keeley and Pilar Marrero – will emcee the June 3 awards ceremony for outstanding ethnic media reporting from 2020.

Odette Alcazaren-Keeley is a former broadcast journalist for ABS-CBN Channel 2 in Manila and its U.S. subsidiary, ABS-CBN International - The Filipino Channel. She also previously served as the Chair of the NAM California Ethnic Media Awards.

Op-Ed: Why we need a rubric for assessing local news coverage of traditionally marginalized communities
By Letrell Deshan Crittenden
In an ideal setting, we wouldn’t have to simplify systemic racism for people to pay attention to it. But if keeping it simple is the nudge needed to start taking this pervasive injustice seriously, then that’s what needs to be done.

New CCM Report Reveals a Vibrant, Yet Little Known, Asian Media Landscape
By Newmark J-School Staff
For decades, U.S. Asian media have played a vital role in covering and informing the many diverse communities they serve. Yet the media serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are largely invisible to most Americans.

iHeartMedia forms Latinx podcast network to address an underserved audience
By Sara Guaglione
Latinx podcast listeners are on the rise, and iHeartMedia has taken notice. “The data and the research is showing that the listener of podcasts is diversifying," said Hilary Ross, VP of Podcast Media at Veritone One.

How journalists are challenging ideas of objectivity while empowering their communities
By Nicole Froio
Movement journalism aligns with goals of social change and liberation from oppression. Some journalists in public radio are finding that it can provide a valuable framework for deepening coverage of local issues.

The Real Problem With the AP’s Firing of Emily Wilder
By Janine Zacharia
For the AP and other news managers, the most urgent issue in Wilder’s dismissal is that a reporter was targeted by a disinformation campaign, and rather than recognizing it as such, the organization essentially caved to it.

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