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  1. Newsrooms, your edit test is where being inclusive starts

    By Kathy Lu

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    Newsrooms expect a lot from job applicants without giving much thought to what else could be going on in their lives. A freelancer applying for your job is not working on a paying gig. An edit test over a weekend means someone working full time is not getting space for rest. And the reward for all this work is: You might be a finalist—or you might never hear back. If you’re a newsroom working toward creating an inclusive culture, one that values its employees and their time, here are seven ideas to reimagine your application process.

  2. How we improved the engineering internship recruitment process at The Washington Post

    By Holden Foreman and Emily Liu

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    Internships can be a great opportunity for students to gain professional experience and for employees to mentor the next generation of engineers, but news organizations that aren’t careful and intentional when recruiting can risk inadvertently over-indexing on candidates with the most access to time, money, and social connections. Since our team loves finding ways to make our processes better, we decided to examine our internship hiring process and see where we could make improvements.

  3. Sincerely, Leaders of Color: How to (not) ask for help finding applicants for your program or job

    By Angilee Shah

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    If you’ve already posted your job description, you might be too late to get the truly diverse pool of applicants you were hoping for.

  4. Newsroom Execs and Managers: Ways to Uphold Your Diversity and Inclusivity Values During COVID-19

    By Sisi Wei

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    Our values are even more important during a crisis. Here are a few practical strategies for thinking through tough decisions in an equitable and inclusive way.

  5. Hacking Our Hiring: What You Can Do Right Now

    By Tiff Fehr

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    Suggestions for getting started, if you want to hack your hiring based on our series.

  6. Hacking Our Hiring: Fair & Useful In-Person Interviews

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The fifth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  7. Hacking Our Hiring: Let’s Talk About Screening

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The fourth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  8. Hacking Our Hiring: Are Cover Letters Really Necessary?

    By Tiff Fehr

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    Part of our in-depth series on making hiring better for everyone.

  9. Hacking Our Hiring, Pt. 2: How to Screen Better

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The second in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.

  10. Hacking Our Hiring: Why You Need to Plan Better

    By Tiff Fehr

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    The first in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times.

  11. How to Diversify Your Newsroom, Starting Now

    By Emma Carew Grovum

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    Emma Carew Grovum’s action steps toward diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizational cultures.

  12. Salary and Benefits Negotiation for News Nerds

    By Soo Oh

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    How to negotiate a salary and benefits in the age of anxiety.

  13. Better Onboarding, Better Retention, Happier Humans

    By Melody Kramer and Kate Travis

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    Onboarding is really important for new employees—many make the decision to stay or leave during the first six months of employment, according to Project Include–but it’s also incredibly important for employers.

  14. Reinventing the Wheel, Over and Over Again

    By Rachel Schallom

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    Like most managers within the journalism industry, Squire received no training or guidance on how to hire. Hiring managers are left to develop their own systems, and a candidate’s experience at a company can widely vary depending on how the hiring manager does things.

  15. Journalism Needs Better Skills Testing

    By Rachel Schallom

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    The main takeaway was to be intentional about your hiring process.

  16. When Hiring Isn’t Hell It Looks Like This

    By Rachel Schallom

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    Last week, I published an open letter to hiring managers highlighting how broken the hiring process is in journalism. The response was overwhelming. Almost all of the feedback was from people, mostly women, sharing stories of similar, frustrating experiences. That made the good experiences shine like gems, so I asked people to tell me more about what good hiring practices and processes stood out to them while interviewing and hiring.

  17. Ms. Management: I Hope You Find the Time to Read this Column

    By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

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    If you’re the kind of person who is into both checks on the executive branch and the finer points of employment law, you may already have come across the case of KNTV, Inc. and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFLCIO. If not—and who can blame you—a quick primer: that case set the precedent that an employer’s use of the phrase “I hope you” could be reasonably construed as “coercive.”

  18. An Open Letter to Newsroom Hiring Managers

    By Rachel Schallom

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    How newsroom hiring practices can serve everyone better.

  19. Ms. Management: The Hard Work of Hiring Well

    By Stacy-Marie Ishmael

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    In this installment of Ms. Management, we learn why a better interview process is better for everyone, not just the applicants.

  20. Source Hiring & Appreciations

    By Erin Kissane

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    We’re planning many changes and additions to Source over the course of 2015. I’ll write about those as they happen, but our first announcement is about changes behind the scenes. I am very happy to announce a new opening for an assistant editor, to join me and the rest of the team in keeping Source watertight and pointed in the right direction. If that sounds like you or someone you know, please take a look at the job description and send us a résumé.

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