Media

Challenges: How can we...

1. Make under-represented communities more visible to mainstream culture?
2. Report issues occurring in the minority communities accurately and fairly?
3. Develop trust between minority communities and reporters?

Recommendations:

• Acknowledge the problems.
• Develop balanced reporting. Include positive community portraits, not only crisis reporting.
• Find out from community members what stories they would like told
• Incorporate a diversity angle into every story.
• Take hate crimes seriously and display them prominently. When the Klan rallies, don’t just focus on the hate group, focus on the alternatives such as unity rallies and picnics.
• Diversify staff.