After bringing together nearly 2,000 students from 50 countries for the online course “Diversity in News and Newsrooms,” the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin will hold the First Latin American Conference on Diversity in Journalism on March 26 and 27.
The event is completely free and online, with the development of two sessions a day on topics such as Gender, Sexual Orientation, Racial and Ethnic Issues and Disability. Registration is open and those who attend the four sessions (offered in Spanish) will be able to receive a free certificate of participation.
The event is sponsored by the Google News Initiative, which also supported the realization of the MOOC (massive, open, online course) Diversity in News and Newsrooms,” from Jan. 11 to Feb. 7.
For as long as Juan can remember, he felt that he didn’t fit the concept of the ideal kid. He has had several serious episodes with depression and three suicide attempts. By age 12, his parents placed him in a psychiatric clinic.
Today, he is 26 and recognizes that his depression had a very specific cause: He couldn’t accept that he is attracted to men. Juan, who agreed to tell his story without publishing his surname, now considers himself emotionally stable and has expressed his sexuality openly since he was 18. But depression is like an “old friend” that occasionally visits.
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For as long as Juan can remember, he felt that he didn’t fit the concept of the ideal kid. He has had several serious episodes with depression and three suicide attempts. By age 12, his parents placed him in a psychiatric clinic.
Today, he is 26 and recognizes that his depression had a very specific cause: He couldn’t accept that he is attracted to men. Juan, who agreed to tell his story without publishing his surname, now considers himself emotionally stable and has expressed his sexuality openly since he was 18. But depression is like an “old friend” that occasionally visits.
This January 5, in which the Ecuadorian Journalist Day is commemorated, is a date to pay tribute to all communication professionals who lost the battle against covid-19, one of them, Augusto Itúrburu, sports journalist from El Telégrafo , who passed away in April of last year.
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But it is also a date to remember the journalistic team of the newspaper
El Comercio , which was assassinated at the hands of dissidents from the Oliver Sinisterra front, in Colombia. We cannot forget their names (Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas and Efraín Segarra), and the mark they left on the country and on their colleagues.
“Actual diversity is about including ‘others’ in the conversation, about them becoming a part of us.”
A journalism and media environment that is more diverse and more inclusive. That’s the path we hope the media takes in 2021, and a goal that we at Chicas Poderosas are working toward.
This year, Black Lives Matter, the pandemic, protests in Latin America, and other events have sparked conversations about equality and inclusiveness. And though this debate has reached journalism, there’s a lot more to be discussed in terms of actual diversity in the media.
At Chicas Poderosas, we worked on three collaborative journalism projects in five different countries this year to tell underrepresented stories of how the pandemic affected different populations. We found that, for all the media coverage the coronavirus got, there were multiple pandemics that were not reported on. Covid-19 and the ensuing confinement meant completely different things for somebody living in a big city