Social Justice and Fairness: Author, Journalist on Journey to Tell Buried Truths

“You are your sibling’s keeper.”

Antonia Hylton says that growing up outside of Boston in Lincoln, Mass. (a half mile from where Paul Revere was arrested) as one of only a few Black families in a white town, her law school professor parents instilled in her and her six siblings a sense of responsibility, accountability and social justice.

Now an award-winning journalist, author, documentarian, podcaster and advocate, Hylton says, “I didn’t want to be a lawyer, but I was interested in justice and fairness. I feel I am responsible to those who come after me.”

Not So: Bad: How Shifting From Negative Information Changes How We Work, Live

Do the negative news stories, content and information we consume affect who we are, our state of mind, and how we work and move in the world?

Emma Varvaloucas, executive director of The Progress Network, believes that is the case. In her role of providing content, podcasts, newsletters and more in this “network of ideas,” she is helping to shift the concentration on extreme, volatile opinions to a more positive gathering of news and facts based on progress.

Expand The Truth: Women Journalists Explore Present, Future and Power Of Community

“I don’t believe in the luxury of neutrality when our bodies are on the line.”

Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post, told more than 120 journalists from across the U.S. at the recent Journalism & Women Symposium camp in Austin, Texas, that her crucible as a journalist in the age of disinformation is to “expand someone’s imagination of what is true and how people see the world.”

Equity, Humanity, Power and Joy: Black Journalist Leaders On Addressing History With Solutions

When was the last time—if ever—you were part of a venture when a leader pronounced that joy was an integral part of the mission?

“We built into our mission that joy underlines our ethos,” says Deborah Douglas, co-editor-in-chief of The Emancipator, the new journalistic venture from Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and the Boston Globe’s opinion team resurrecting the 200-year old abolitionist newspaper. “Journalists should not have to create from tension.”

Fight Fair: Top Women Journalists Take on Media Equity Urgency With Hope

Leading the recent virtual discussion, “Take The Lead Presents: Equity for Women in Journalism,” Charreah Jackson and four veteran award-winning broadcast journalists plus Mira Lowe, president of Journalism & Women Symposium, tackle the shifting nature of journalism, opportunities for women, ongoing challenges of discrimination and the urgency to fight for fair gender identity and racial equality and representation in media newsrooms.

Yes you can do something about unfair media coverage of women: here’s the secret

Issue 144 — October 5, 2020

I’ve gotta tell you, I get really tired of people complaining to me about something they saw in the news coverage of women. Whether it’s criticizing or loving Kamala Harris’s Chucks or the tone and timbre of a female leader’s voice, and don’t get me started on Hillary Clinton’s ankles and yellow pantsuit, women in leadership roles are scrutinized and stereotyped much more often than men. That’s surely true.

Media Upheaval: Take The Lead Responds With Expanded 50 Women In Journalism Cohort

The media landscape is perhaps at its most chaotic and disrupted in history with firings of top editors, resignings, furloughs, shutdowns, accusations of racism and sexism in content, coverage and workplace culture.

Anna Wintour, the legendary Vogue editor, says the magazine’s culture is by her own admission “hurtful and intolerant,” and rarely promotes black staff. The co-founder and top editor of Refinery 29, Christene Barberich, resigned after accusations of racism. The Bon Appetit editor resigned over racist allegations. Conde Nast is accused of systemic racism.

For Attribution: Take The Lead Changing The Record on Women Journalists in Wikipedia

Virginia Woolf famously said, “For most of history, anonymous was a woman.” A new effort launched by Take The Lead’s 50 Women in Journalism Can Change The World cohort, Women Do News, is out to give credit to women journalists where credit is due, particularly in the pages of Wikipedia.

Who Edits History?

I have been secretary of almost every organization I’ve ever belonged to. It started with when I was a Girl Scout. I suppose I was chosen to be secretary because throughout elementary school I carried around a notebook and pencil to write stories. And I quickly learned that she who holds the pencil gets to tell the story of the meeting her way, even with the constrictions of Roberts Rules of Order.

The Wowza Week of Women Changing The World 4 Ways

The last seven days have been nothing short of amazing. So my column this week is largely a pictorial with brief commentary on several categories of advances for women and gender equality unrolling before our eyes if we can only see and appreciate them. Yes, I know the news is full of narratives about difficulties and disparities women face, and they are real.

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