Free session discusses DEI through content strategy

Poynter is offering a free online session to help newsrooms emphasize diversity and inclusion through content strategy. It demonstrates this by showing how four Chicago newsrooms did it. The course is free and self directed. You can sign up here.

Column: Prehn records fight seeks accountability 

More than a year and a half after the expiration of his term, Dr. Frederick Prehn continues to occupy a seat on the Natural Resources Board, which sets policy for the state Department of Natural Resources. His refusal to step down has allowed him to cast the deciding vote in key decisions related to wildlife… – MORE –

Make plan to manage newsroom vacation season

The holidays are here which means newsrooms are going into vacation mode and having to produce newscasts with limited staff. Check out this RTDNA column from Tim Wolff, Vice President of TV and Digital Publishing Innovation at Futuri, about how to get through the vacation season with great news content for your audiences.



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Open Meetings Law

Our state has a very powerful Open Meetings Law, which permits reporters to attend and report on all meetings of governmental bodies, boards, and commissions, and it allows reporters to record and photograph a meeting held in open session as long as you don’t interfere with the conduct of the meeting or the rights of… - MORE -