The Ida B. Wells Society is a national organization housed in UNC-Chapel Hill s journalism school that aims to increase the ranks and retention of reporters of color in the field of investigative reporting.
The Inclusive Journalism Initiative is an effort by the organizations to move the news industry toward a comprehensive plan for smarter and more expansive coverage of race and systemic inequality.
An open letter calls on the industry s highest honors to include a new participation clause. "By implementing this new criteria, the Pulitzers would honor not only great journalism, but journalism from newsrooms willing to be accountable to the public."