Register! Virtual Panel: Covering Immigration: ICE, Journalism, and Imperiled Civil Rights

Join us for a rapid-response digital dialogue hosted by the Maynard Communities of Practice Program

Join us for a digital dialogue on covering the crisis surrounding immigration enforcement policy, the mandate of journalism, and the erosion of constitutional rights and civil liberties.

Moderated by Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Martin G. Reynolds, this conversation will feature panelists Andrés Cediel, professor, visiting professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University; Michelle Zenarosa, editor-in-chief at the LA Public Press and Maynard 200 alum; and Christopher Mark Juhn, photojournalist on the ground in Minneapolis and Maynard 200 alum. 

Martin G. Reynolds is co-executive director of the Maynard Institute. He is co-founder of Oakland Voices, a community storytelling project that trains residents to be community correspondents. Before his Maynard fellowship, Martin was senior editor for community engagement and training for 18 years with the Bay Area News Group, and editor-in-chief of the Oakland Tribune between 2008-2011.

Martin was the former director of the Reveal Investigative Fellowships from the Center for Investigative Reporting. He has helped to raise more than millions from foundations to support reporting and community engagement initiatives and conducts Fault Lines® diversity training programs for media companies, colleges and universities.

Professor Andrés Cediel developed immigration training coursework that provides key frameworks on current immigration coverage. An Emmy Award-winning journalist and documentarian, Cediel developed and taught the course “Undocumented America” on how to report on immigration in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley. He is now a visiting professor at the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

Michelle Zenarosa is Editor-in-Chief at LA Public Press, a nonprofit newsroom serving Los Angeles County through community-centered journalism. She has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, previously serving as Deputy Editor at Reckon News, Director of Content at Everyday Feminism, and holding positions at Fusion Media, LA Weekly, and New America Media. A 2023 Maynard 200 Fellow and 2017 Society of Features Journalism Fellow, Michelle also curated the MacArthur Civic Media Fellowship at USC Annenberg. Under her leadership, LA Public Press saw 2,300% audience growth during coverage of federal immigration enforcement operations and was recognized as a Nieman Lab Top 25 nonprofit news site. Michelle wrote for Poynter on protecting domestic reporters in the same way as war correspondents, and ensuring the newsroom had a framework for legal defense, defense against doxxing, and crisis preparation, including personal protective equipment. Michelle created safety protocols and reporting guides now used by newsrooms nationally, and has convened and trained journalists across LA’s independent media landscape on crisis coverage. She begins the IWMF Safety Ambassador program this month.

Christopher Mark Juhn is a photojournalist covering Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) operations in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and the civilian protests and unrest resulting from widespread warrantless arrests and civil rights violations. He also has covered the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and CBP agents. Christopher has been covering press briefings, operations by Department of Homeland Security  agents, and community vigils and protests, informing the community.. His work has appeared in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, NPR, the Guardian U.S., Rolling Stone, and Le Point Magazine. 

The panel will examine the legal frameworks and constitutional protections that are intended to guide enforcement activity, alongside realities journalists are witnessing in the field. The discussion will also explore how editors are preparing newsrooms to safely cover ICE activity, and how journalists are caring for themselves while reporting on civil unrest and potential abuses of state power.

This program is open to all journalists and members of the public with an interest in press freedom, civil liberties, and responsible coverage of immigration enforcement. The conversation also reflects the ongoing peer learning and collaboration happening through the Maynard Institute’s Communities of Practice — an alumni network that connects journalists across Maynard programs for continued learning, support, and exchange of expertise.

Due to the sensitive nature of this discussion and our commitment to protecting journalists and vulnerable communities, all registrations are subject to security screening. Registration will remain open until 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST on February 2. Confirmed participants will receive the Zoom link by email.

For questions about the event, please contact Program Director Odette Alcazaren-Keeley at okeeley@mije.org.

Co-hosted by Baywell Health (formerly West Oakland Health Center), Change Consulting, and the Maynard Institute, Bay Area journalists covering Oakland convened at Oakstop, across from the historic Fox Theater, to discuss building better beats, helping audiences understand public safety, and break down the causes of crime and possible solutions.

An especially important topic as we enter election season, journalists, editors, public safety experts and community advocates came together to consider how best to educate the public and seek data-driven, community-oriented solutions to crime and violence. The convening also inspired discussions and closer examinations of the concepts of violence, crime, safety, and justice.

The Maynard Institute would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all partner organizations, panelists, coordinators and attendees.

Agenda and Speakers:

Welcome Address by Martin Reynolds of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

Comparative Community Survey Research Presentation with:

• Robert Phillips, Baywell Health (formerly West Oakland Health Center)
• Thu Quach, Asian Health Services

Community Panel moderated by Bilen Mesfin Packwood of Change Consulting with:

• Tinisch Hollins, Californians for Safety and Justice
• Nicole Lee, Urban Peace Movement
• Thu Quach, Asian Health Services

Journalists Panel moderated by Professor Lisa Armstrong of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with:

• David DeBolt, East Bay Times
• Julian Glover, ABC7 News Bay Area
• Marisa Lagos, KQED
• Roselyn Romero, The Oaklandside

Hosted at Oakstop on Telegraph Avenue across from Oakland’s Fox Theater.

David DeBolt spent more than a decade as a daily newspaper reporter covering city government, education, and crime and criminal justice, primarily in Oakland and Contra Costa County, for the Oakland Tribune/East Bay Times and The Oaklandside. He returned to the Times in 2022 to become an editor and oversees a team of metro and breaking news reporters.

Julian Glover is a multi-platform anchor, executive producer, and reporter covering race and social justice. He produces high-impact documentaries and data-driven reports for ABC7 News Bay Area. His most recent documentary “Californian’s Case for Reparations” chronicles the push for reparations, linking anti-Black policies of the past to the lived experiences of today’s Californians. Glover’s ongoing reporting on discrimination in the home appraisal process and devaluation of Black neighborhoods culminated in the documentary “Our America: Lowballed” and has prompted action by the Biden Administration, Congress, and appraisal industry. His housing reporting was awarded multiple Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award.

Tinisch Hollins has over two decades of professional experience in community organizing, guiding government systems, and informing public policy to make social change. She is a gifted critical thinker, public speaker, and seasoned facilitator who uses both professional training and lived experience to build shared understanding and to frame practical and sustainable solutions rooted in community well-being. Through demonstrated leadership in the fields of violence prevention and social justice, she has built effective partnerships with impacted communities, decision-makers, influencers, and stakeholders throughout California. Currently, Tinisch serves as the Executive Director of Californians for Safety and Justice (CSJ), one of the nation’s most effective criminal justice reform agencies. CSJ works to reduce wasteful jail and prison spending and advance common-sense public safety solutions that address the root causes of crime and achieve long-term safety.

​​Marisa Lagos is a correspondent for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-hosts a daily show and podcast, Political Breakdown, where she sits down with political insiders to dig into policy and politics — and offer a peek into the lives and personalities of those driving politics in California and beyond. At KQED, Lagos also conducts reporting, analysis and investigations into state, local and national politics for radio, TV, online and on stage. In 2022, she and Shafer moderated the only gubernatorial debate in California. In 2020, the Washington Post named her one of the top political journalists in California; she was nominated for a Peabody and won several other awards for her work investigating the 2017 California wildfires. She has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Los Angeles Times. A UC Santa Barbara graduate, she lives in San Francisco with her two sons and husband.

Nicole Lee is the founding Executive Director of Urban Peace Movement, a grass-roots racial justice organization in Oakland that builds youth leadership to transform the social conditions that drive community violence and mass incarceration. Lee is a fourth-generation Oakland resident of Chinese American heritage and has spent the past 25 years leading critical social justice work through coalition-building and youth organizing campaigns. In 2009 Lee founded the Urban Peace Movement, an organization which has been instrumental in pushing for an end to youth incarceration and mass incarceration in Alameda County. In 2018 Lee was named on EBONY Magazine’s prestigious Power 100 List as a “Community Crusader.” In 2022 Lee received the Rosenberg Foundation’s Leading Edge Fellowship.

Robert Phillips is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Baywell Health, a federally qualified health center founded in 1967 to improve the health of the Bay Area’s Black communities. Before Baywell Health, Robert was President, CEO, and founding Board Member of Alluma, a non-profit technology social enterprise; executive director at Kaiser Permanente; managing director at the Sierra Health Foundation; managing director and senior fellow, among other positions, for The California Endowment; and an organizer, political director, policy analyst, and capital strategies rep for SEIU and the AFL-CIO. In addition to his professional experience, Robert is ABD in Health Policy from UNC-Chapel Hill, has an MPH from Harvard University, an MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a BA from Morehouse College. Robert has a Certificate of Business Excellence in Executive Education from UC Berkeley and an Investment Stewardship from Yale University.

Thu Quach, Ph.D. serves as the President of Asian Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Alameda County serving 50,000 patients in English and 14 languages. As an epidemiologist, she is involved in research and policy efforts to promote health equity, emphasizing the importance of language justice, data equity and culturally responsive mental health. She has conducted pioneering research focused on nail and hair salon worker health and safety to inform policy and practice. She has expanded culturally and linguistically responsive mental health services, including starting up a specialty mental health division. During the pandemic, she assembled an Asian American & Pacific Islander multi-lingual team to provide community testing, contact tracing, and vaccinations. In response to the increased anti-Asian violence, she helped established trauma-informed mental health services to support impacted families, while promoting cross-racial solidarity.

Roselyn Romero covers public safety for The Oaklandside. On the beat, she has reported on police pursuits, law enforcement technology, commercial burglaries and violence prevention solutions. Before covering public safety, Roselyn was The Oaklandside’s small business reporting fellow through the Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship Program, during which she highlighted the Town’s diverse entrepreneurs and bustling business corridors while shedding light on the public safety challenges facing small business owners and restaurateurs. Roselyn has worked for The Associated Press, USAFacts, NBC Bay Area, KSBY News and other media outlets. She is a proud daughter of Filipino immigrants and currently lives in East Oakland.

Moderator Bios:

Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in The New Yorker, The Intercept, Rolling Stone, The Texas Tribune and other outlets. She reports mainly on incarceration and has also produced documentaries, including one for CBS News about how subpar mental health care provided by for-profit companies led to in an increase in suicides in state prisons. Armstrong is a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and also taught at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for 12 years. She also teaches journalism at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

Bilen Mesfin Packwood has over 20 years of experience in media and communications and is the founder and principal of Change Consulting, a social change communications agency based in Oakland, California. She has established a reputation as a trusted strategic advisor to leading changemakers.

Martin G. Reynolds is the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute. He is co-founder of Oakland Voices, a community storytelling project that trains residents to be community correspondents. He was named as Digital First Media’s Innovator of the Year for his work on Oakland Voices. Prior to his Maynard fellowship, Reynolds was senior editor for community engagement and training for Bay Area News Group and served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune between 2008-2011. His career with Bay Area News Group spanned 18 years. Reynolds was also a lead editor on the Chauncey Bailey Project, formed in 2007 to investigate the slaying of the former Oakland Post editor and Tribune reporter. Reynolds also conducts Fault Lines diversity training programs for media companies and colleges and universities.

RSVP to reserve your spot

Attendees of the 2024 Online News Association convention are invited to join us at a networking happy hour reception Thursday, September 19, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

Alumni, faculty, partners, and friends of the Maynard Institute are invited to join Atlanta-based alumni Lenn Almadin-Thornhill, Maria Alejandra Bastidas and Delano R. Massey for a special Happy Hour networking reception on Thursday, September 19, 2024 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm.

Hosted by the Maynard Institute Co-Executive Directors, Evelyn Hsu and Martin G. Reynolds, and Maynard 200 Director, Odette Alcazaren-Keeley, this informal and fun gathering is for the Institute’s program alums and friends in the area — whether you are attending the ONA24 conference or not — we invite you to join us!

Space is limited. Advance RSVP is required. RSVP today to reserve your spot.

For those attending the ONA conference, be sure to check out our New Managers Training session on September 18th at 9:30am-2:00pm Eastern Time. This workshop equips new managers with the skills needed to confidently transition into leadership while creating an inclusive, supportive team culture. You’ll learn how to foster openness, respect, and innovation—key elements often overlooked in traditional environments.

Meet the Alumni Happy Hour Co-Hosts

A Maynard 200 Fellow from 2022, Lenn Almadin-Thornhill is the Assignment Editor at CourtTV and Correspondent for The Filipino Channel TV-ABS-CBN News, Maria Alejandra Bastidas, previously VP & GM at Telemundo Atlanta until last year and a 2019, Maynard 200 Fellow, Maria is currently CEO and Founder of MAB Digital and Latina Leads US. An alumni of the Maynard Institute’s Media Academy, Class of 2008-2009, Delano R. Massey is currently Managing Editor at Axios Local.

Learn more and Register for ONA24

Are you stepping into a new management role at your news organization? Join the Maynard Institute for a special training session at the Online News Association’s annual conference (ONA24) taking place Sept. 18-21 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta Downtown.

ONA’s conferences provide a platform to learn, connect and contribute to shaping the future of digital journalism. Attendees represent global news outlets, local news startups, technology companies, universities and the broader ecosystem of journalism support organizations.

This workshop equips new managers with the skills needed to confidently transition into leadership while creating an inclusive, supportive team culture. You’ll learn how to foster openness, respect, and innovation—key elements often overlooked in traditional environments.

Workshop Highlights:

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  Stepping into Your Role: Discover what’s expected of you as a manager and the essential elements for success.

  
  
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  Leaning into Your Fault Lines®: Address personal biases, encourage full participation, and create an environment that values feedback, innovation, and respectful disagreement.

  
  
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  Building Power and Gaining Influence: Learn how to gain recognition and effectively influence both multi-generational peers and higher-level staff as a first-time manager.

  
  
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  Handling Difficult Conversations: Bring real-life scenarios to the session and receive tailored advice on delivering tough news. You’ll also practice these conversations in a supportive setting, refining your approach.

  
  

Led by experienced facilitators from the Maynard Institute, this workshop blends practical strategies, real-world examples, and hands-on exercises to help you establish your leadership presence, shape a positive team culture, and navigate challenging situations with confidence.

This workshop is designed to provide mid-career leaders with everything they need to step into management roles for the first time and will guide participants through the challenges associated with navigating new responsibilities, managing difficult relationships, fostering work culture and building power and influence.

The Maynard Institute has a six-decade track record of helping managers succeed and ascend to top roles in news and journalism organizations.

How to Register

This session requires ONA24 registration and advance sign-up through the RSVP process, along with an additional $50 fee. Registered attendees can sign up using their personalized account link found in your ONA registration confirmation email sent by registration@journalists.org. More information about the RSVP process can be found in the conference FAQs and the ONA blog titled Moving On Up: Professional Development Training at ONA24.

Speakers:

Jean Marie Brown is Senior Fault Lines® trainer and Associate Professor of Professional Practice at TCU’s Bob Schieffer School of Communication. In addition to serving as a full-time faculty member at TCU, she is also director of student media. A former newspaper executive, Brown spent most of her professional career working for Knight Ridder and later McClatchy newspapers. She held management positions at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Charlotte Observer. Her management career included time as a deputy features editor, city editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. At one time, she directed local news coverage for the Arlington and Northeast edition of the Star-Telegram. Her strengths as an editor were line editing, story idea generation and staff development. As a reporter, she excelled at covering local government and public policy. She began her career in the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal where she covered agriculture, financial futures and U.S. farm policy. Brown has a bachelor’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a master’s from Texas Christian University.

Kim Bui is a digital journalist, strategy consultant, freelance researcher and 2024 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow. Previously, she was the Senior director of product and audience innovation at the Arizona Republic. She’s focused her career on leading real-time news initiatives and creating new storytelling forms for digital, print and broadcast companies catering to local, national and global audiences. Prior, she was editor-at-large for NowThis News, focusing on original, social reporting and breaking news. She was also deputy managing editor for reported.ly, a digital media startup specializing in social journalism. She’s been a speaker, trainer and teacher on digital and social journalism at universities, conferences and gatherings worldwide. She writes a syndicated newsletter for emerging leaders and managers, The Middles.

Felecia D. Henderson is Director of Cultural Competency at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She is a coach on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging issues to over 100 print and broadcast news organizations in the Knight-Lenfest Table Stakes digital newsroom innovation program. She also leads Maynard’s Fault Lines® training program and the cultural competency program for colleges and universities. Before joining the institute, Felecia was an assistant managing editor at The Detroit News where she was a member of the senior management team responsible for newsroom operations. She began her journalism career at her hometown newspaper, The Courier- Journal in Louisville, KY, graduated from the Maynard’s Editing Program for Minority Journalists at the University of Arizona and held editing roles at the Detroit Free Press and The Cincinnati Post. Felecia has a bachelor’s in Radio-TV/Journalism from Murray State University and a master’s in Organization Development from Bowling Green State University.

Martin G. Reynolds is the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute. Before being named to leadership of the Maynard Institute, Martin was a senior fellow for strategic planning for the institute, helping to oversee planning and implementation of the “MIJE Re-Imagined” project. He is co-founder of Oakland Voices, a community storytelling project that trains residents to be community correspondents. For his work there, he was named as Digital First Media’s Innovator of the Year. Before his Maynard fellowship, Reynolds was senior editor for community engagement and training for 18 years with the Bay Area News Group and editor-in-chief of the Oakland Tribune between 2008-2011. Reynolds was also a lead editor on the Chauncey Bailey Project, formed in 2007 to investigate the slaying of the former Oakland Post editor and Tribune reporter. He conducts Fault Lines diversity training programs for media companies, colleges and universities. He is a sought-after speaker on the state of diversity, trust and inclusion in journalism

Moderator:

Evelyn Hsu is the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute. She will guide the strategic direction of the Newsroom Transformation Program. She joined the institute in 2004 as director of programs. Most recently, she was senior director for programs and operations. She worked as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post. She was an associate director of the American Press Institute and a member of the faculty of the Poynter Institute. She is a past national president of the Asian American Journalists Association. She is a graduate of the Maynard Institute’s Summer Program for Minority Journalists.

Founded in 1984, the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) brings together working journalists, journalism educators and researchers from across the country to share resources, support, training and information about issues that affect women in the industry. Join us for a special session on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 10:15am – 12:15pm Eastern Time.

Beyond Objectivity – Getting Past the Usual Tropes – A Special Maynard-JAWS Collaboration

What is objectivity, that troubled journalistic ideal? Dead-end debates rage about both sides-ism, naive empiricism, false equivalences, and more. But this needn’t be so hard. The Maynard Institute has established a method for identifying and going beyond one’s own and others’ biases. During this discussion, attendees will learn the institute’s trademarked Fault Lines™ framework, which helps reporters, editors and upper-level managers understand how social identities and self-categorization can affect decision-making and coverage of a news organization’s community. The framework helps people recognize their own Fault Lines™, and in turn, their own biases.

The Maynard Institute’s Director for Cultural Competency, Felecia D. Henderson, will join longtime journalism industry professionals Jean Marie Brown, Associate Professor of Professional Practice Department of Journalism, Texas Christian University, Mary Irby-Jones, USA Today Midwest Regional Editor Executive Editor, The Courier Journal, and Linda Jue, JAWS facilitator, Editor at Large, 100Reporters, and Contributing Investigative Editor, palabra by NAHJ.

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New Training: Data for Journalists Covering Climate Change and Gun Violence

The Society of Environmental Journalists and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education invite you to watch this recorded training by Helina Selemon, Maynard 200 alum, SEJ member and science reporter in the New York Amsterdam News’ Blacklight investigative unit, on the shocking links between climate change and gun violence.

The training provides reporters across the country with access to exclusive local data on the amount of gun violence linked to extreme heat in each of the United States’ 100 largest cities – from Akron, Ohio to Winston-Salem, North Carolina – as well as the percentage of shootings where elevated heat is a factor and the most dangerous day for gun violence linked to climate change for each US city.

Selemon was joined by veteran investigative editor Aaron Glantz, the Maynard Institute’s executive-in-residence for investigative storytelling, who will be available to coach local and national reporters on how to best use the data for their own investigations. See the recording for Helina and Aaron’s office hours.

Helina Selemon is a Maynard 200 Fellowship alum, reporter for Amsterdam News’ Blacklight investigative unit and adjunct lecturer on investigative research methods at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Selemon is also a Society of Environmental Journalists 2024 Diversity Fellow.

Aaron Glantz is Peabody award winner, Pulitzer finalist, and an incoming fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

About the Society of Environmental Journalists

The Society of Environmental Journalists is the only North American membership association of professional journalists dedicated to more and better coverage of environment-related issues. SEJ’s mission is to strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism that advances public understanding of environmental issues.

Support the Maynard Institute’s work and become a member.

Register

Join Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Martin G. Reynolds and the Writers Guild of America East for a Fault Lines® diversity training on recognizing and combating microaggressions in the workplace and countering bias while building community and stronger work environments.

Using the Maynard Institute’s Fault Lines® methodology to recognize and expand understanding of internal biases, this event will show attendees how to build strong relationships with colleagues while advocating for accountability in the workplace.

Thanks to a grant from the New York State Consortium for Worker Education, WGAE is able to present this event free of charge.

This discussion is tailored for WGAE members.

About Writers Guild of America East

The Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO (WGAE) is a labor union representing thousands of members who write content for motion pictures, television, news and online media. The Guild negotiates and administers contracts that protect the creative and economic rights of its members; conducts programs, seminars and events on issues of interest to writers; and presents writers’ views to various bodies of government.

*Please RSVP to this event.

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Join Maynard 200 Fellowship Director Odette Alcazaren-Keeley for a webcast: ‘Navigating tensions in war coverage,’ organized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) San Francisco Northern California Chapter Board of Governors DEI Committee. The virtual media panel streams live on YouTube and Facebook, at 11:30am PDT on Thursday, May 30, 2024.

Panelists including former television war reporters, news and law enforcement leaders will also discuss another ongoing war at home: tensions in America’s newsrooms, in line with coverage of conflict zones:

• Professor Lisette Poole, Former Middle East Journalist, Associated Press and The Times of London, Journalism and Communications Lecturer, CSU East Bay.
• Adam Housley, Former War Reporter, Fox News, Former Reporter, KCPM NBC Chico and KTXL Sacramento, Former Board of Governors Member, NATAS SF/NorCAL.
• Anthony Mata, Investigations Bureau Chief, Santa Clara County DA’s Office, Former Chief of Police, San Jose, CA.
• Jim Jakobs, News Director, KMPH FOX26, Formerly at KCRA, KOVR, Sacramento and KNTV, Bay Area, Board of Governors Member, NATAS SF/NorCAL.
• Moderator: Professor Bob Rucker, Former CNN National News Correspondent – San Francisco, Journalism Professor and Director Emeritus, SJSU, Board of Governors Member, Former DEI Committee Chair, NATAS SF/NorCAL.
• Diversity Chair, NATAS SF/NorCAL: Odette Alcazaren-Keeley, Director, Maynard 200, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

Serving as Diversity Committee Chair of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California Chapter, Alcazaren-Keeley will share frameworks, anchored in equity, inclusion and belonging, that serve to guide reporters, editors, and producers in covering the multi-layered contexts of the conflict in the region and at home, including demonstrations across the nation’s campuses.

Frameworks like the Maynard Institute’s Fault Lines® methodology can be leveraged by news organizations to foster inclusive storytelling driven by accuracy, balance and respect for diverse perspectives, including journalists of color in their ranks.

This upcoming virtual panel discussion is a follow-up to a previous webcast on the psychological impacts of war journalism from November of last year, titled “War Coverage: Fighting to Tell the Truth”.

More information can be found on the NATAS SF/NorCal website.

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Join Maynard Institute Co-Executive Director Evelyn Hsu and team at INN Days in San Diego on June 11-12, 2024. The Maynard Institute is a proud sponsor of this conference because INN members represent a rapidly growing field of nonprofit newsrooms filling news deserts and reaching communities all over the country.

This year’s INN Days includes the following conference tracks:

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  Expanding our reach. How newsrooms are creating solutions to meet communities where they are while addressing the challenges of scaling and sustaining these innovative ideas.

  
  
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  Defending democracy. Tactics and tools organizations are adopting to protect against emerging threats to news organizations, journalists, and democratic processes in their communities.

  
  
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  Funding the work. Ways news organizations and funders are evolving their practices to increase financial support for journalism while navigating the challenges of sustaining a rapidly growing field.

  
  
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  Transforming the workspace. Actions newsrooms are taking to center diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their work culture and effectively attract and retain the talent they need.

  
  
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  Connecting the field. Opportunities to network, exchange ideas, and build new relationships with leaders across the field.

  
  

Come find us at our sponsor table for great conversation and Maynard Institute branded gifts.

About INN Days

INN Days brings together leaders across the nonprofit news field to highlight examples, share practical skills, and host solutions-focused conversations on the challenges and opportunities to fund and increase access to quality news and information that connects communities, holds the powerful accountable and strengthens our democracy.

*Attendees must be registered to join us at INN Days.

Learn more

Is nonprofit news sustainable? Can the model serve the full civic information needs of citizens, both in the Bay Area and in regions with little local wealth and sparse populations? Join us on Thursday, February 8 at 7:00pm PST, for an engaging panel discussion on “The Death and Rebirth of Local News” hosted by the College Prepatory School. The panel will explore the demise of the majority of the Bay Area’s local newspapers, the new nonprofit newsrooms that have launched in recent years
and the critical role local news plays in a healthy democracy. Can nonprofit news sites deliver local and regional news in a way that is relevant to the TikTok generation?

The panelists include:

• Martin G. Reynolds, Maynard Institute co-executive director
• Katherine Ann Rowlands, Bay City News publisher and LocalNewsMatters.org founder
• Madeleine Bair, El Tímpano founder
• Geoffrey King, Open Vallejo founder and executive editor

*Attendees must be registered. Register to your seats!