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The business case for diversity and inclusion in newsrooms is important, but emphasizing the moral case is required for real and lasting change.
“As we build out that newsroom, how do we prioritize people who have experience serving info needs in communities across disciplines?”
“The best predictor of membership loyalty is whether an organization has been talking to their audiences already about their need to raise money. The other predictor is how many subscribers you have on your list, and how engaged those subscribers on your list are.”
It’s bringing on new funders and announced plans to develop new cultural competency trainings and a multi-year effort to support and move through the media industry pipeline at least 200 journalists of color.
“If we were starting the Institute” — a major force for diversity in journalism — “today, what would it need to be, and how would it survive?”
It’s not just newspaper employees who suffer when a newspaper dies, as is happening to MediaNews’ papers in the Bay Area. It’s a loss felt across the community.