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This video may be republished by news media in whole or edited for free and unrestricted use. In the video McCarren makes these points: The Club has used the anniversary of Jamal’s death to call attention to his case every year and will continue to do so. Major developments in the case this year include President Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia and meeting with MBS and the Saudi initiative to use “sports washing” through golf to rehabilitate their reputation. Calls on journalists to answer pitches from the Edelman PR firm (which represents Saudi Arabia for the LIV account) by asking how the…
Castro will release the second of two reports he commissioned from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the underrepresentation of Latinos in media, including Hollywood, news, and book publishing. The first report was released last year, and the second installment covers representation of Latinos in media during the past decade and efforts by media companies to increase workforce diversity.
The latest report will also look at the enforcement of federal equal opportunity requirements and the role of the U.S. government, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, and the Federal Communications Commission. “The media industry, and Hollywood in particular, is still the main image defining and narrative creating institution in American society, and Latinos are still largely invisible in this industry,” Castro said last year at the NPC. “The fact is that the worst offenders in the industry are actually news organizations and publishing houses,” Castro said.…
Today: Rep. Joaquin Castro to release second GAO report on Latino representation in media
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, will speak Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 10 a.m. at the National Press Club about the lack of representation of Latinos in media, both on screen and behind the scenes.
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Dislocations caused by Covid-19 over the past two years intensified that stress, said Anna Johnson, Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press. Managers must consider the mental and emotional well-being of employees as well as their physical safety, she said. “All of us have come through a traumatic situation,” Johnson said. It is not enough to have physical safety plans for reporters in danger zones, she said. The panels were organized in cooperation with Project Healthy Minds, a non-profit organization aimed at increasing mental health services offered by companies to their employees…
Schermer said programs to improve the mental health of employees “now are on the same trajectory that climate [change] has been on for the past ten years.” He said his group wants businesses not only to provide more mental health services but to report publicly on what they do. “There’s been a lot of virtue-signaling in corporate America about mental health,” Schermer said. “Signaling is important, but it’s not enough.” He said it is “essential to demonstrate through data” the extent of corporate mental health programs and how well used they are. The Healthy Minds website offers an…
Reporters, editors must recognize, confront stresses of journalism, panel says
The stresses of journalism can cause mental health problems that writers and editors should recognize and confront, according to two panels on journalism and mental health on Friday, Sept. 30 at the National Press Club.
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