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.
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You likely know the racial and ethnic makeup of your newsroom, but what about your sources? Let’s talk about why diverse sourcing is important, how to find out how well your sources represent your community and ideas on creating and retaining those sources.
This session will show you how to use expert databases to find vetted sources, what to look for with “faux experts” and how to follow experts when they publish.
It’s important for editors to allow for long-term adjustments that might wax and wane as a writer’s health fluctuates.
For more accurate diversity data, it’s critical to tag your content properly, and you need to understand what to tag and what not to tag.
Tennessean editor Michael Anastasi, a longtime champion of investing in diversity in all respects, led a discussion on nurturing careers with a special focus on diversity.
Language is powerful. How we use terms, categories and concepts in our coverage matter a lot — especially to people who often been denied control over the language used to describe them.
