Microcredential

Building a Diverse Team

Diversity helps ensure the most important issues affecting your communities are investigated and explained in a way that can prompt impactful change. We'll offer practical tips to help any newsroom achieve this goal.

$300

Total: Course cost

10 Days to complete

Duration

Online - scheduled
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Overview

This module covers the importance of diverse journalists, topics and sources, from race, religion and culture to age and economic diversity, and offers tips for how to encourage/achieve that goal, even if you don't yet have a very diverse newsroom. Other team considerations: skills sets for writing, data analysis, research/reporting/interviewing, photography/videography/drone operators, audio technicians, graphic designers, web developers, etc. And when to bring them in.

About this course

This course covers the importance of diverse journalists, topics and sources, from race, religion and culture to age and economic diversity, and offers tips for how to encourage/achieve that goal, even if you don't yet have a very diverse newsroom.

Certificate program

This course is a part of the following certificate program:

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Editing Program
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Editing Program
$3,000

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