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When George Floyd was killed, the protests for racial justice put pressure on news organizations to do what many people had been calling for for years: hire and promote more journalists of color, listen to them, let them cover stories relevant to their communities. Like the killings of Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. Or, more recently, the Atlanta spa shootings. Guests: Toulouse Olurunnipa, reporter for The Washington Post and a CNN Political Analyst, and Martin G. Reynolds, the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: The global impact of Black Lives Matter Companies face pressure to conduct racial audits Crime jumps after court-ordered policing changes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms” is a new initiative started as a collaboration between the Online News Association, the Maynard Institute and OpenNews, with a goal to be a major catalyst creating social change within journalistic institutions that help newsrooms be anti-racist and collaborative, and where journalists of color feel like they truly belong. Vision25 is creating programs that any news organization can access, in order to effect change in leadership, workforce and partnerships that can result in building a truly anti-racists environment. In this segment of “E&P Reports,” E&P Publisher Mike Blinder speaks with Vision25 founders: Irving Washington, Executive Director/CEO Online News Association; Sisi Wei, Director of Programs OpenNews; and Martin G. Reynolds Co-Executive Director, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, to learn why they feel there is such a need for such an initiative today, and, how news publishers can take advantage of the Vision25 resources.
Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria.In this episode, we take a closer look at journalism – in particular how news outlets covered the 2020 presidential campaign and local and national elections, including the candidates and communities. What worked? Where were journalists challenged? and where does the field of journalism go from here?My guests are:Martin G. Reynolds, Co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism EducationLila LaHood, publisher of the San Francisco Public Press; and a board member of the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter.
SPEAKERS Melissa Caen Political and Legal Reporter, CBS Bay Area C.W. Nevius Columnist, Santa Rosa Press Democrat; Former Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle; Twitter @cwnevius Martin G. Reynolds Co-Executive Director, Maynard Institute; Director, Reveal Investigative Fellows Program; Twitter @reynoldspost John Zipperer Vice President of Media & Editorial, The Commonwealth Club—Host This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California on May 6th, 2019.