Diversity
How GBH’s inclusion and equity officer is rolling out her four-phase plan for DEI work
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Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates began her time with the Boston station by holding “really intensive listening sessions” with over 200 people.
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Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates began her time with the Boston station by holding “really intensive listening sessions” with over 200 people.
Media organizations including New York Public Radio have joined the BBC’s 50:50 Project, which is expanding beyond gender to track race and ethnicity.
“We get to learn from our guests as much as listeners do.”
“Sometimes we decide not to ask questions when we’re afraid of what the answer may be. I suspect that may be the case when it comes to why people of color leave the industry.”
You’ve started tracking the diversity of your sources. Hooray! Now, there are a few things you and your newsroom can do to make sure that source diversity tracking becomes a lasting habit.
The Seattle station received a CPB grant to distribute the toolkit, which details every aspect of the recruitment process.
“The big challenge is going to be thinking about where Morning Edition goes as a show, in five years and 10 years.”
Stations in Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Jackson, Miss., will join the CPB-supported Urban Alternative format with the goal of reaching new listeners.
“The misery from a local perspective continues even after some of the national media has left. But the unique thing with The Communities Initiative is we’re still here. We’re still recording.”
The podcast follows months of criticism directed at PBS and public media about the system’s DEI initiatives and lack of transparency.
Created by Furman University and South Carolina ETV, the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative convenes its second session next month.
The corporate focus on metrics and data in achieving diversity initiatives can shift internal conversations from “what we’ve always done” to a rationale for specific changes.
The most stubborn obstacle on the path to reform is well-meaning folks who fight inequity whenever they see it but can’t see it when they’re involved.
The data also reveals that men and women held equal shares of jobs in the system in 2020.
During the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, President Paula Kerger cited gains in stations’ membership revenues and the Biden administration’s focus on education as bright spots.
The station will commission and broadcast recordings of works by composers from underrepresented communities.
“The mix of public media messages that I’m needed, but only to a hierarchical point, is a confounding conundrum.”
“This effort is the result of more than 200 people in public media coming together to identify the primary obstacles to anti-racist public media and create a vision for transformation.”
Current and former employees of the Triple A station say they’re troubled by a lack of staff diversity and a clear mission statement, as well as “tension between who we are and who we’re allowed to be.”
As management resets its approach for improving workplace culture, an employee-led group that pressed for change moves to the sidelines.