What ProPublica is Doing About Diversity

Source: 
Coverage Type: 

Like many news organizations around the country, ProPublica is working hard to increase the diversity of our workplace. Here's what we're doing:

  • One barrier to getting into journalism has long been economic: It's hard to get clips if you're not in a position to take an unpaid internship or to work for free at your college paper. With support from a generous donor, ProPublica has just created the Emerging Reporters Program, which offers grants to college students of color who are interested in doing great journalism.
  • Through a new initiative with CUNY Journalism School and the Knight Foundation, we will also be hosting reporting fellows every summer who come from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, or are affiliated with organizations for journalists of color. We pay all our fellows -- $700/week -- and we always have.
  • We also want to recruit as broadly as possible. All our jobs are posted both internally and externally. But more importantly, we've been working to reach beyond our traditional networks for candidates. The best way to judge us on hiring, in the end, is to look at our numbers.

What ProPublica is Doing About Diversity