Newsroom Leadership in the age of Black Lives Matter

The pandemic, economic struggles, and demands for social justice are forcing newsrooms to account for their own failures at diversity, inclusion and representative coverage. Those failures have led to resignations of top leaders at The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications.

In a conversation co-hosted by the News Leaders Association and the National Press Club Journalism Institute and moderated by Gannett executive Mizell Stewart III, executive editors Katrice Hardy of the Indianapolis Star and Mary Irby-Jones of The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger will discuss how they are leading their newsrooms when issues of race and class are at the forefront.

Topics will include:

- Setting the emotional tone for the newsroom
- Self-care for top editors
- Counseling team members on their use of social media
- How the emphasis on digital subscriptions affects their approach to historically underserved audiences.

Registration is now open for this program, which will be held on July 10 from 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. ET.

This program is one of an ongoing series of free conversations. Upcoming:

• The art & craft of the interview: How to deeply listen with Terry Gross, Michael Barbaro and Kimberly Adams (July 17, 4:00pm-4:30pm)
• Being heard: How to use your voice so people listen with Sewell Chan, Erika Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jake Silverstein (July 29, 11:30am-12:15pm)