Diversity workshop series: Social fault lines

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    • Description: What are social fault lines and how do we question them, define them and report through them? Applications include: covering race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disabilities.

    Led by: Romi Ruiz of USA TODAY and Earl Hopkins of the Austin American-Statesman

    Recommend reading: Sincerely, Leaders of Color, a column series by POC news leaders

    Helpful resource: The DEI Coalition’s excellent guide on allyship for white managers

    Diversity Tooklit for Newsrooms has a section on Digital Advisory Groups for useful background

    Ethics and practices for reporting on traumatized individuals and communities, done in partnership with the Dart Center for Trauma in Journalism

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    More training on Diversity & Inclusion:

    Community engagement for underserved communities

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    • Ramadan Guidance for employees

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    • DEI tagging for editors and producers

    As your newsroom increases storytelling to reflect the communities we serve, what are best practices for tracking the content? Editors and producers are invited to join this session in which we will share revised tags to use for 2022 and what each tag means.

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    • Print design: Ethics and diversity

    The choices we make must be truthful, fair, balanced and complete. Each decision happens in the context of many other decisions, both in the same moment and over time.

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