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Join Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Martin G. Reynolds for a roundtable conversation on Monday, February 5 at 6:00pm PST, with several other authors who contributed to the volume of essays, Reinventing Journalism to Strengthen Democracy: Insights from Innovators. Published by the Kettering Foundation in 2023, the book features journalists from newspapers, public radio, civic media groups, and new media collectives who share their perspectives on how to address the growing distrust of media and institutions. Hosted by KALW Public Media and co-sponsored by the Kettering Foundation and the Society of Professional Journalists, this Town Hall event is a hybrid-format allowing guests to join virtually over Zoom or in-person.

About the Town Hall

Join in-person at KALW’s community event space at 220 Montgomery Street in downtown San Francisco, or via Zoom from anywhere. Teachers who attend the event in person can buy signed copies of the book for $20. Students who attend in person can buy signed copies at a sliding scale. This event is free and open to the public.

Remote attendees, note: If you plan to attend by Zoom, please RSVP through Eventbrite to receive the event link.

In-person attendees, note: Doors open at 5:00pm. The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street. We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north. If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location; Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue.

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About the Essay by Martin G. Reynolds

From the publisher: During summer 2020, the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sent shockwaves across America. Newsrooms and the journalists in them also felt the shock. Martin Reynolds, former managing editor and editor in chief of the Oakland Tribune and co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, was one of them. Even though Reynolds saw himself “in Floyd, in Taylor, and in the faces of countless other people of color who had been slain by police,” his initial instinct was to maintain his objectivity and to frame these events through the lens of a media professional and not a Black man with a Black son. Reynolds examines this experience and suggests some ways the dismantling of systemic racism in newsrooms might begin.

Read an excerpt of the essay written by the Maynard Institute’s Co-Executive Director, Martin G. Reynolds, for the book, Reinventing Journalism to Strengthen Democracy: Insights from Innovators, published by the Kettering Foundation and edited by Paloma Dallas and Paula Ellis.

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Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Evelyn Hsu will moderate an online discussion titled, Preparing for transitions: Succession Planning on Thursday, January 25, 2024. Kicking off The Pivot Fund’s new Publisher Series, this zoom webinar is a resource for BIPOC publishers and founders seeking to navigate the intricacies of succession planning and secure the long-term success of their newsrooms.

Delve into the complexities of succession planning, whether it involves selling the business or identifying internal or external successors. How can leaders exit responsibly and with respect to the work that they’ve done? What is philanthropy doing to support these pioneers? This webinar is tailored to equip publishers with valuable tips and strategies to plan for the future proactively.

Panelists include:

• Mukhtar Ibrahim, founder of the Sahan Journal
• Randall Yip, founder and editor of AsAmNews
• Jane McDonnell, CEO of free range media and former executive director of Online News Association

*Attendees must be registered to attend this online event.

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We invite you to learn about the latest digital trends, test new tools and connect with other leaders and changemakers in journalism to discuss common challenges at the Online News Association’s annual conference ONA23. Join thought leaders in digital media for an unparalleled blend of learning, networking and inspiration. Taking place August 23-26 in Philadelphia, ONA23 will explore storytelling innovations, audience development strategies, revenue models, emerging technology and more. One of this year’s must-see sessions features the Maynard Institute’s Co-Executive Director, Martin G. Reynolds.

Real Talk About The Status Of DEI In Journalism

Versha Sharma, Editor-in-Chief, Teen Vogue, and ONA board member, will moderate the conversation. Speakers include:

• Kathleen McElroy, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Martin G. Reynolds, Co-Executive Director, The Maynard Institute
• Leonor Ayala Polley, Chief of Business Development & Partnerships, URL Media

Read the ONA23 session highlight by Carrie Blazina titled, “Let’s get real about the state of DEI in journalism.“

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More about DEI Under Attack

Vision25 partners, the Online News Association, Maynard Institute and OpenNews, will host an interactive, invite-only discussion about the future of building equity in newsrooms at ONA23. The faciliated discussion “DEI under attack: How do we meet the moment?” will explore ideas submitted in advance as well as proposed live during the event. Space is limited. RSVP required. If you’re interested in attending, contact info@mije.org

*Attendees must also be registered for ONA23 to attend this in-person event.

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Hosted by the Maynard Institute Co-Executive Directors, Evelyn Hsu and Martin G. Reynolds, and Maynard 200 Director, Odette Alcazaren-Keeley, with special thanks to Philly-based Maynard 200 alums Manny Smith and Shaneen Quarles for helping us organize this event.

Alums, partners and friends of the Maynard Institute are invited to reconnect over complimentary appetizers and a cash bar offering happy hour drink specials at City Winery Philadelphia.

This informal and fun gathering is for the Institute’s program alums and friends in the area — whether you are attending ONA23 or not — we invited you to join us!

Walking distance from the ONA23 conference location, City Winery is located in the heart of downtown Philadelphia’s Center City.

Space is limited. RSVP required. Registered guests will meet in City Winery’s reserved section known as The Ridge.

We look forward to building community with you there!

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MDDC has convened experts in the field to help reporters understand how to report events in vulnerable communities – and examine their own unconscious bias that may be affecting their reporting. In this four-part Virtual Codeswitching series, experts from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and veteran journalists share their perspectives and best practices. This series is designed to reframe the way journalists approach their reporting. Join us on Tuesday, August 15 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT for the fourth installment titled Unconscious Bias in Reporting.

In this 90 minute session, facilitated by the Maynard Institute’s Co-executive director, Martin G. Reynolds, attendees got an overview of the institute’s trademarked Fault Lines® framework, which reveals how we all see the world through the prism of race, class, gender, generation, geography, sexual orientation and other areas of self-categorization, such as religion, politics and social affiliations. How we align across these fault lines — and how they intersect — shape our biases and influence our perceptions. Those perceptions can lead to different forms of bias, such as unconscious, implicit and performance, and shape our approach to coverage, community engagement and working relationships. This session will provide a framework that can be a protection against one’s own biases and tool to develop coverage that is more nuanced and inclusive.

About Fault Lines

The Maynard Institute offers in-person and virtual diversity training sessions for newsrooms of all sizes across the country. Our program is based on addressing personal biases of race, gender, sexual orientation, generation, geography and class, as they apply to journalists, newsroom collaboration and coverage. Learn more about yow can you be a dismantler of systemic racism and othering in your news organization.

About MDDC

Founded in 1908 as the Maryland Press Association for weekly newspapers, the organization incorporated in Maryland as a nonprofit corporation in 1948 and began admitting daily newspapers to active membership that year. In 1961, it merged with the Delmarva Press Association, an organization that included newspapers in Delaware and the Eastern Shore areas of Maryland and Virginia, to become the Maryland-Delaware Press Association. In 1968, it included newspapers from the District of Columbia and became the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, Inc.

Today, MDDC consists of two corporations, the nonprofit Association and its for-profit subsidiary, MDDC Press Service, which operates the organization’s advertising programs. Additionally, in 1998 MDDC newspapers established an independent, charitable foundation, the MDDC Press Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation. The Association counts all of the daily and most of the non-daily newspapers in Maryland, Delaware and D.C. among its active members.

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Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Evelyn Hsu will be a panelist at the 2023 National Association of Black Journalists Conference at 1:30pm on Friday, August 4, 2023 Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Birmingham, Alabama. The session titled How to Transform Newsroom Diversity and Inclusion Practices in a Sustainable Way will highlight organizations that are helping newsrooms build sustainable solutions to their DEIB issues.

In 2022, the American Press Institute launched its Inclusion Index. The Index reveals inequitable practices via targeted research of newsroom practices. In February, API completed its first cohort-based project in Pittsburgh. The Maynard Institute has also launched a project focused on DEIB transformation. This pilot program pairs two newsrooms with consultants experienced in training journalists on DEIB issues. Resolve Philly has worked with newsrooms on DEIB issues since 2019. Its Modifier project provides an array of solutions to newsrooms seeking transformational change.

Panelists include:

• Rod Hicks, Society of Professional Journalists
• Aubrey Nagle, Resolve Philly
• Letrell Crittenden, American Press Institute
• Evelyn Hsu, Maynard Insitute

About the Newsroom Transformation program

Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Maynard Institute’s Equity & Belonging Newsroom Transformation program leverages an embedded coaching model to help news organizations better inform underserved communities and establish workplace cultures of belonging. The goal is to help newsrooms become more equitable and inclusive in their reporting, workplace, and in the communities they serve. The team of consultants piloting the program curriculum work closely with Maynard Institute facilitators who are steeped in the Fault Lines® training methodology. Learn more about the program and read the blog about the selected newsrooms, GBH and The Gazette.

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Join the Maynard Institute, Online News Association and OpenNews for a special Vision25 gathering.

DEI Under Attack: How do we meet the moment?
Date: Friday, August 25, 2023 | Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

It has been three years since the Summer of George Floyd and the formation of the Vision25 partnership. What has changed? Or, perhaps more accurately, what has not changed?

In the last year, DEI positions have been disproportionately hit by layoffs across industries and political policies designed to erase the gains and lessons of this work continue to ramp up.

We are witnessing a rapid and troubling retrenchment of DEI commitments and priorities across industries, including news and philanthropy. We believe that there are opportunities to think collectively and creatively about how to reclaim the distorted narrative and to meet this moment.

In 2020, your input led us to do a series of events called Belonging in the News, where journalists shared about their journeys to find belonging. We also highlighted pay equity in journalism and unpacking the myth of journalistic objectivity.

Three years later, we ask you to join Vision25 partners, the Online News Association, Maynard Institute and OpenNews, on Friday, August 25 at 4 p.m. for a can’t miss discussion about the future of building equity in newsrooms.

The facilitated discussion will explore ideas and topics submitted in advance as well as proposed live during the event.

Space is limited. RSVP required. If you’re interested in attending, contact info@mije.org

About Vision25

A collaboration between the Online News Association, the Maynard Institute and OpenNews, Vision25 is designed to help build anti-racist news organizations that become institutions of belonging. Our organizations came together because we found that we were each fighting the same fight, but on different fronts, to create social change. Each of us—Online News Association, Maynard Institute, and OpenNews—had been tackling this change separately, but once we started imagining what could be possible if we combined the leadership power and reach of ONA with Maynard’s training on dismantling systemic racism and OpenNews’s expertise in community organizing and support, we knew that we had to join forces. Vision25 is a commitment by our three organizations to advance racial equity in journalism. Learn more about the Vision25 collaboration.

*Attendees must also be registered for ONA23 to attend this in-person event.

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Join event moderator and Maynard 200 Fellowship Director, Odette Alcazaren-Keeley on Thursday, April 20, in conversation with Filipina powerhouse Loida Nicolas Lewis. Lewis has emboldened the Filipino-American diaspora for decades, as a long-standing ally of initiatives amplifying their political and entrepreneurial impact. In her upcoming book “Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?: An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire,” Lewis shares her journey, from her childhood in the Philippines to her career as a New York lawyer. Advance registration is required to attend this special event presented by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of San Francisco.

About Loida Lewis

As the first Asian woman to own a billion dollar enterprise in the United States, Lewis is a respected community leader and philanthropist. When she took over as CEO of TLC Beatrice in 1994, a year after the untimely death of her husband, Reginald Lewis, the company made $1.65B in annual sales. Loida Lewis was named the top U.S. woman business executive by The National Foundation for Women Business Owners and earned the #2 spot and the cover of Working Woman Magazine’s “50 Women Business Owners in America” in May 1996.

Lewis also became active in political causes, co-founding the [National Federation of Filipino-American Associations (NaFFAA)] in 1997, alongside publisher Alex Esclamado, lawyer Rodel Rodis, and recognized civic leader Gloria Caoile, with the goal to empower Filipino-Americans. Their founding conference in Washington D.C. was a historical first, with over 1,000 community leaders, high school and college students, young professionals, civil rights activists, and Filipino World War II Veterans in attendance. As Lewis spoke in front of the White House, she emphasized the importance of justice for veterans, encouraged the youth to fight for their ‘lolos’ and ‘lolas’ and to keep their legacy of heroism alive.

LOCATION: Sentro Filipino, 814 Mission Street, Mezzanine Floor, San Francisco, California

HOSTS: Sonia Delen and Rodel Rodis, Presented by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of San Francisco

Books will be available on-site for purchase and author signing.

About Moderator Odette Alcazaren-Keeley

Odette Alcazaren-Keeley is a diversity communications and media executive, and currently serves as the director of the Maynard 200 journalism fellowship program of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. In 2022, she was the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter, Unsung Hero Award and received recognition for her role as Director of the Maynard 200 Fellowship program, “one of the most powerful incubators for journalists of color in the country.” Read her full bio.

*Reminder: Attendees must be registered to attend this in-person event.

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Oakland Voices alumni correspondents are invited to join a special Q&A with Oakland-based author and illustrator Thi Bui, author of the award-winning The Best We Could Do on Thursday, May 11 at the Chapter 510 office in Old Oakland, California. RSVP to join fellow correspondents and get a signed copy of Bui’s book.

Note: this is an indoor event and masking is encouraged.

About Special Guest Thi Bui

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics. It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor. With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California. She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.

About Host Momo Chang

Momo Chang, Co-Director of Oakland Voices, a community journalism training program and platform. She is a former staff writer at the Oakland Tribune, where she covered Chinatown and Asian American communities. Her work has appeared in the East Bay Express, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and The New York Times. Chang is primarily a print journalist who also produces audio and visual stories for documentary film and radio. She is a Senior Contributing Editor for Hyphen and Content Manager at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).

About Host Venue Chapter 510

Chapter 510 is a made-in-Oakland youth writing, bookmaking & publishing center. Our teaching artists and volunteers work side by side with educators to provide a safe space and supportive community so Black, brown, and queer youth ages 8-19 can bravely write. Oakland Voices alum from 2016-2017, Marabet Morales Sikahall, joined Chapter 510 in 2021 as Program & Community Manager. Read more on our blog .

*Attendees must be an Oakland Voices alumni and must RSVP via eventbrite to attend this in-person event.

Learn more about the Maynard Instiute’s local community journalism program Oakland Voices which is accepting applications for new correspondents through April 16, 2023.

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Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Martin G. Reynolds will be the guest speaker at the Local Media Consortium Conference DEI Luncheon from 11:45am – 1:30pm on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The presentation titled Fault Lines: A Tool for Understanding Audience, Content, and Yourself will explore how social fault lines, such as class, gender, generation, race, geography, and sexual orientation shape all of us. They help to inform our biases and influence our relationships and perceptions. This session will introduce you to a tool that can help you think differently about your work, your organization, your colleagues, and the opportunities they might be missing because of blind spots.

About Fault Lines

The Maynard Institute offers in-person and virtual diversity training sessions for newsrooms of all sizes across the country. Our program is based on addressing personal biases of race, gender, sexual orientation, generation, geography and class, as they apply to journalists, newsroom collaboration and coverage. Learn more about yow can you be a dismantler of systemic racism and othering in your news organization.

About the Local Media Consortium

The Local Media Consortium (LMC) represents more than 3,000 news outlets. By forming strategic partnerships with digital platforms and service providers, LMC helps our members — local newspapers, broadcasters, and online news outlets — save money, increase revenue and grow audiences.

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