Racial Equity and Inclusion in Nonprofit News is an INN resource that helps members advance racial diversity, equity and inclusion in their organizations and their journalism.

REINN allows nonprofit news leaders to join an ongoing process of building racial equity into their organizational practices. Resources are designed to be accessible, particularly to small and mid-size news operations, in any stage of their DEI work. This is an evolving program based on member needs and participant feedback – please check this space regularly for new opportunities.

Resources

Essential Reading

Toolkits

Videos

How are You Going to Meet the Moment: A Call for Journalistic Action with Martin G. Reynolds

Whose Voices Are We Amplifying? Source Tracking 101

Rewarding Talent: Bringing Diverse Voices into News, and Ensuring They Want to Stay

The Pipeline is not the Problem: Recruiting, Retaining, and Promoting the Next BIPOC Leaders

INN Member Only Videos/Resources

INN Members – sign in here to view additional video trainings.

Operationalize Equity in Your Organization, Nonprofit HR for INN

Interrupt Bias Within the Hiring and Talent Management Process, Nonprofit HR for INN

Build Equitable and Inclusive Newsroom Collaborations, Resolve Philly for INN

INN Case Studies of Member Work

Member DEI reports, values statements & work plans 

• Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, Diversity Report, Work Plan
• Voice of OC, Diversity Report
• The Narwhal, Commitment to Inclusive Journalism
• The Pulitzer Center, Diversity Statement

Community + Support

The DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms

Style Guides

• The Diversity Style Guide
• NABJ Style Guide
• NAHJ Cultural Competence Handbook
• AAJA Guide to Covering Asian Pacific America
• NAJA Reporting Guides
• NLGJA Style Guide

Internships

The Institute for Nonprofit News collaborates with outstanding schools and programs across the country to facilitate more than 70 paid internship and fellowship positions with member organizations each year. Many of our partnerships focus on building pathways into nonprofit news for emerging journalists of color. Learn more here.

Consultant Resources for Members

INN has worked with these consultants and coaches with positive and productive results, or these organizations have been recommended by members.

Hiring & Retention Strategies

Nonprofit HR’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion managing director Emily Holthaus and her team help INN members develop hiring and retention strategies and strategic plans that center concrete and sustainable equity and inclusion practices. Holthaus’s small-group seminars for INN members have received high marks from participants for their clarity and the actionable information provided. Nonprofit HR offers these special rates to individual INN members for DEI consulting services. Members with fewer than 10 employees can access a customized 10-hour consulting package for $3200, and members with more than 10 employees can access 15 hours for $5000. For more information contact Sidney Abrams, VP of business development, at sidneya@nonprofithr.com.

DEI Policy and System Review

CircleUp Education’s DEI Policy & System Review coaching and consulting service provide expert review and technical support to ensure that policies, practices, and systems are equitable, free of discrimination and effectively interrupting oppression. 

DEI Policy & System Review coaching Includes:

• Policy and systems for managers and directors on creating an inclusive workplace environment
• Support creating the mission and vision of DEI communities or task force
• Assessment conversations to identify policies and practices that may be leading to unfair practices in hiring, firing, recruitment, retention, and discipline
• Create processes and strategies to address and respond to explicit discrimination and implicit discrimination
• Strategies and systems on how to ensure staff that racism and discrimination will be addressed when it occurs
• Building Processes to prevent and address DEI issues and de-escalate challenging situations
• Support with how to communicate updates or addition to new DEI policies and systems to your team
• Support looking at specific HR and procedural policies in order to review them for inequities

Click HERE for details or visit www.circleuped.org to request a free assessment. Let CircleUp know you’re a part of the Institute for Nonprofit News because nonprofit news members with fewer than 10 employees qualify for a 15% discount on DEI coaching services.

Our Team

Our Partners

Funding for this program is provided by the generous support of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.