Antoinette Isama is a Brooklyn-based culture journalist and editor documenting the global impact of creativity from Africa and its diaspora. Currently, she's the co-founder of FourTwo Creative, a Black women-led creative agency building culturally-relevant brands that thrive in the digital space.
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Community engagement and sustainable DEIB systems: Lessons from Pittsburgh
Ensuring your staff finds tangible ways to engage with the communities you serve is important in embedding sustainable DEIB systems in your newsroom, internally and externally.
Assessing your newsroom’s DEIB needs
Identifying that your newsroom needs an assessment like the Inclusion Index is the first step, but it’s fair to acknowledge how challenging it can be to recognize the pain points that need to be addressed — and how they even came to be.
API Inclusion Index cohort kicks off plans to improve the Pittsburgh news ecosystem
Four newsrooms in Pittsburgh openly acknowledged their struggles to serve communities of color and dedicated themselves to concrete changes related to diversity and inclusion following a near-year-long project with API.
