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143: 258: 77: 36: 391:— writing blogs and online pieces, taking photos, shooting video, and using social media to discuss issues that matter most in their communities. Correspondents also learn journalism ethics and editorial decision-making, interview basics, and story craft. They report on issues of life in Oakland, including community heroes, health and wealth disparities, and efforts to curb violence. 415:"It was his belief, and we at the Maynard Institute have come to share that belief, that our nation is split along the five Fault Lines of race, class, gender, geography and generation. It is now time to not only admit that we are divided along those lines but to also begin to think about those differences in a more sophisticated manner." 479:
is co-director of Oakland voices. A multimedia journalist with experience in print, digital, and broadcast journalism, Shabazz his work has been published in the East Bay Express, East Bay Times, Indybay, Oakland Local, Oakland Post, San Francisco BayView, and The Final Call. He previously hosted and
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The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (MIJE) is an American non-profit organization that trains journalists to become investigative journalists, editors, newspaper managers, and media entrepreneurs. The organization seeks to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in newsrooms to
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According to the Institute's website its programs are open to all, though the Institute makes clear that its mission is to address the under-representation of people of color and other historically disadvantaged groups in media-related professions, and so makes special efforts to recruit individuals
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is the Director of the Maynard 200 Fellowship program. In 2022, Alcazaren-Keeley was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter Unsung Hero Award. She is also the president and founding partner of Global MediaX, a strategic multicultural and international media
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According to the Maynard Institute website, "The Fault Lines Program is a series of in-person and virtual diversity training sessions for newsrooms. The program seeks to address personal bias "Fault Lines" of race, gender, sexual orientation, generation, geography and class as they apply to
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Oakland Voices emerged from a partnership between the Oakland Tribune and The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in 2010. Oakland Voices participants work individually and in teams, creating content for OaklandVoices.us, which can also be published elsewhere.
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reflected that he felt the lack of diversity in journalism stemmed not only from a lack of hiring reporters with diverse backgrounds, but also from a lack of diversity in the management and ownership of media outlets.
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The program aims to support journalism and media professionals of diverse backgrounds by providing training courses, resources, and mentorship by media professionals and experts.
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The ASNE Commission on Minorities set a goal of having ethnically diverse representation in newsrooms reach 17.5%, reflective of the population in 1978, by the year 2000.
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In an essay for Nieman Reports, Dori J. Maynard, daughter of Robert C. Maynard and later director of the institute that bears his name said of the Fault Lines Program:
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Founded in 1977, the Institute for Journalism Education (IJE) began as a volunteer project of nine working journalists, training journalists and journalism students at
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in her essay "Growing Up, Not Old" in Robert C. Maynard's book "Letters to my Children", the nine original founders of the Institute for Journalism Education included
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is a six-month hyper-local program led by the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education that trains Oakland residents to tell the stories of their neighborhoods.
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After the 1970s, MIJE shifted its focus from entry-level reporters mid-career editors and managers and from newsroom basics to advanced skill development.
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provides advanced training and mentorship to diverse corps of mid-career journalists in order to promote their career growth into leadership roles.
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diversify coverage of the news itself, creating a more complex and representative picture of the American news landscape.
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As of 2024, the fellowship has trained over 200 fellows since 2018 who work in mainstream and minority media newsrooms.
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Co-founder Robert Maynard, in his memoirs and essays critical of the journalism industry such as his 1979 essay
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produced radio news at KALX and hosted The Black Hour podcast with the Peralta College's 9th Floor Radio.
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report from 1978 showed that only 4% of all newsroom employees were people of color.
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is Director for Cultural Competency, she is the former Assistant Managing Editor at
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noted the lack of diversity in news as a factor in civil unrest, an
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consultancy group headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Dark blue letters read Maynard Institute on a white background
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The organization is currently led by Co-Executive Directors
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Equity and Belonging Newsroom Transformation Pilot Program
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According to its website, Oakland Voices correspondents
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UC Berkeley Summer Program for Minority Journalists
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