Sounds like we might have a jump start on a panel idea for 2016 with this article George has shared with us. One use for pitching this idea might be how to infuse all of these ideas into J- Education so as to strategically increase the numbers in newsrooms in coming years.
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> On Jul 27, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Sue Robinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for sending these links!!
>
> I have a related question. A friend from the Kettering Foundation is
> looking to find out which journalism programs are:
>
> "explicitly dealing with race, class, social justice, etc. in specific
> courses or even lines of study. How are students prepared to deal with
> these important issues, story lines? Does anyone focus on this?"
>
> If you or you know of any School that offers this kind of work to
> undergrads, could you PM me at [log in to unmask]
>
> Thanks! And feel free to forward to any relevant list serves as well!!
>
> Sue Robinson
>
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 PM, George Daniels <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> CSM and MAC members,
>>
>> I wanted to call everyone's attention to a new report that apparently was
>> released last week on the minority journalists' pipeline, published in an
>> article on the Columbia Journalism Review's website.
>>
>> Alex Williams, a doctoral student in the Annenberg Program at Penn, has done
>> some analysis of data from Annual Surveys of Journalism and Mass
>> Communication Enrollments and Graduates, which up until last year were
>> produced by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass
>> Communication.
>>
>> You can read the results in Williams' post entitled "Why Aren't There More
>> Minority Journalists?" at the following link:
>>
>> http://www.cjr.org/analysis/in_the_span_of_two.php
>>
>> There have been a number of postings/online publications over the last year
>> that are relevant to the mission of the Commission on the Status of
>> Minorities and those of us who do research on diversity that is presented in
>> the Minorities and Communication Division. Here are three more that we all
>> should see:
>>
>> 13 Top Editors On How They Think About Diversity in Their Newsrooms
>> http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/top-editors-on-how-they-think-about-diversity-in-newsrooms#.iynnnJB2w
>>
>> Building A Diverse Newsroom Is Work
>> https://medium.com/@shani_o/building-a-diverse-newsroom-is-work-e4843d6d014b
>>
>> Research: Minority Numbers Slide, Women Make Gains (Latest RTDNA diversity
>> data released last Monday)
>> http://rtdna.org/article/research_minority_numbers_slide_women_make_gains
>>
>> As we gear up for the conference in 10 days, I'm wondering will there be
>> time in our division/commission member meetings to look at some of these
>> reports and what CSM and MAC can do in the area of PF&R, Teaching and our
>> Research"
>>
>> Questions to consider:
>>
>> -- Are we considering these analyses in our planning and prioritizing
>> "diversity" in our various journalism and mass communication schools and
>> departments?
>> -- To what extent are we as an organization reaching OUT to students such as
>> Mr. Williams for whom journalism/mass communication is NOT their primary
>> research area?
>> -- What is the status of the Annual Surveys, which, to my knowledge, were
>> not conducted this year as ASJMC locates a new home for these surveys?
>> -- Where in our JMC programs are we being intentional about teaching
>> students HOW to BUILD NETWORKS, if, in fact, networking is the barrier that
>> is keeping minority students from having success in getting hired?
>>
>>
>> George L. Daniels, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Dean
>> College of Communication and Information Sciences
>> The University of Alabama
>> Box 870172
>> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0172
>> (205)-348-8618
>
>
>
> --
> Sue Robinson, PhD
> Associate Professor
> School of Journalism & Mass Communication
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 5148 Vilas Hall
> 821 University Ave.
> Madison, WI 53706
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