{"id":37,"date":"2001-10-13T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2001-10-13T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/?p=37"},"modified":"2001-10-13T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2001-10-13T19:30:48","slug":"inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/2001\/10\/13\/inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Convener<\/span><\/strong>: George Benge<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Note taker<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Doug Floyd<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Participants<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Benge<\/li>\n<li>Doug Floyd<\/li>\n<li>Bobbie Jo Buel<\/li>\n<li>Mark Heleniak<\/li>\n<li>Kristin Gilger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Report<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mainstream newspapers are structured to overlook issues of diversity in our communities &#8212; middle-class reporters and editors collecting news for middle-class readers.\u00a0 In so doing, we miss the niche audiences that specialized newspapers and many radio stations target.\u00a0 Maybe our journalism is driven by mass-appeal marketing values.<\/p>\n<p>To be inclusive, we want to reach out to new audiences while holding on to our traditional readership base.\u00a0 That means assertively looking for a wider mix of faces and voices in our reporting.\u00a0 (Buel says her paper offers a cash prize to the reporters who do the best job of reflecting diversity in their stories.)<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on minority communities requires building bridges of trust,\u00a0 which takes time and effort.\u00a0 It also takes understanding of cultural differences in the way individuals acquire and hold power, in the expectations of newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>As demographics shift, we realize that inclusion is a forward-looking business investment &#8212; in terms of both content and staffing.\u00a0 As with other policy decisions, it\u2019s critical to get reporters to value diversity.\u00a0 It\u2019s counterproductive to hire minority reporters and then undermine the diversity they bring to the newsroom by trying to make them think and act like everyone else.\u00a0 Alert editors will recognize that sometimes rules and policies interfere with inclusion and it may be necessary to amend or eliminate those rules and policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convener: George Benge Note taker:\u00a0 Doug Floyd Participants George Benge Doug Floyd Bobbie Jo Buel Mark Heleniak Kristin Gilger Report Mainstream newspapers are structured to overlook issues of diversity in our communities &#8212; middle-class reporters and editors collecting news for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/2001\/10\/13\/inclusion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}