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Setting boundaries so working on DEI doesn’t overwhelm my life
By Sisi Wei
Posted onWhen working on diversity isn’t really a choice, what can we do to make sure we’re giving ourselves time to heal?
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Journalists: If you’ve worked with others to change your newsroom, you’re probably an organizer
By Sisi Wei
Posted onThree lessons I’ve learned about journalism, organizing, and how closely intertwined they are.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: This is my commitment as an ally and a leader
By Greg Burton
Posted onThere’s much work to be done to better support and develop journalists of color. Here are a few steps I’m taking this year.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: U.S.-focused Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategies Don’t Scale Globally
By Feli Carrique
Posted onThe push towards DEI initiatives in US media is a great thing, and it can help raise analog concerns in places where there hasn’t been so much reckoning. However, assuming that the same initiatives implemented to deal with discrimination in the US. are applicable elsewhere is inaccurate and short-sighted.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: A self-improvement buddy system for leaders
By John Davidow and Hannah Wise
Posted onHannah Wise and John Davidow, co-founders of Media Bridge Partners (a new consultancy that helps media organizations with their diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging goals), discuss their personal/professional commitments for 2022.
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Three edits you can bring to every story to make disability visible in news
By Hannah Wise
Posted onNewsrooms are starting to understand they need to make accessibility more than an afterthought. Editors are positioned to propel much needed change — even one story at a time.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: What we’ll do in 2022
By P. Kim Bui and Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onOver the next few weeks, you’ll see a series of guest columns that are a little different than our usual offering. As promised, we solicited and received commitments (not predictions) from journalism leaders. We’re excited to publish these thoughts and promises made by our fellow leaders, allies, and rebels — of all colors.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Dual managers and caretakers face additional challenges
By Kyndell Harkness
Posted onManaging as a person of color has its own burden when dealing with the dynamics of the workplace. Often overlooked, is the extra weight of culturally based family obligations that are a part of our daily lives.
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Community Q&A: As a white manager, how do I build trust and be a good ally to my colleagues of color?
By Members of the DEI Coalition
Posted onDEI Coalition members talk about allyship in practice, acknowledging power dynamics, and building trust
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: We’re back and better than ever
By P. Kim Bui and Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onWe’ve been funded for 2022! Newsroom leaders: We want to hear what you’re *actually* going to do next year to help journalists of color thrive.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Analyze school enrollment changes in the districts you cover
By Vignesh Ramachandran and Daniel Willis
Posted onThe Stanford School Enrollment Project is a collaborative project that collects and normalizes school enrollment data from dozens of states, creating a dataset that didn’t exist before. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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Answering your questions on how to redesign brainstorming meetings
By Sisi Wei
Posted onMeetings belong to participants, too: overcoming tech barriers and snackable next steps
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Redesign your live meeting agenda doc with these templates
By Sisi Wei
Posted onHow to prioritize people who are participating on their own time
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News organizations: Here’s what your teams are trying to tell you about burnout
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Posted onHow leaders can #RethinkBurnout in journalism and create systems for organizational change
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I’m redesigning brainstorming for asynchronous participation and I love it
By Sisi Wei
Posted onWhen I worked in newsrooms, one of the most frequent complaints I heard was about needing to go to too many meetings and therefore not being able to get your work done. But the problem has never been with meetings themselves — but rather whether the people calling the meeting effectively used the time and placed real value on other people’s time.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: POCs are expected to be exceptional at everything. That’s literally impossible.
By P. Kim Bui
Posted onLeaders of color are dealing with a double standard: To be considered successful, you must be twice as good. To be a genuine leader, you must show people you aren’t perfect, and have things you’re working on, setting an impossible bar to more achievable heights.
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Slack moderator structures should share power and guard against burnout
By Sophie Ho and Sisi Wei
Posted onFocusing on logistics, emotional labor, welcome and support, safety, and membership review
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: How to (not) ask for help finding applicants for your program or job
By Angilee Shah
Posted onIf you’ve already posted your job description, you might be too late to get the truly diverse pool of applicants you were hoping for.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Lessons from SRCCON2021
By P. Kim Bui and Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onWhisper networks, everyone needs help, what allyship means, and how there’s no universal answer to DEI
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Let’s talk about hurtful corporate speak
By Tony Elkins
Posted onHere are a few phrases you should stop using immediately, and some alternatives you can inject into your daily conversations.
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