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ASNE to issue comprehensive report on diversity in news
Posted 4/2/2012 10:57:00 AM
The American Society of News Editors on Monday will release its comprehensive report on the future on diversity in the news during the ASNE Annual Convention. The Ford Foundation funded the research and report.
Lessons on hiring, mobile and audience-building among take-aways at ASNE Leadership Diversity session
Posted 9/28/2011 2:00:00 PM
Finding good, diverse talent on the business side is just the beginning. Convincing them to join your organization is the real challenge. Growth in mobile is going to be huge and companies need to plan an aggressive strategy. The ability to collaborate and innovate are essential for today’s executives. Those are just three key take-away messages from the second day of the “Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent & Revenue” held last week at the New York Times Conference Center.
TV, online executives share innovative business ideas
Posted 9/21/2011 10:22:00 AM
NEW YORK – A panel of six online and television news leaders provided a vibrant cross-section of ideas on developing and working toward profitability for news aimed at niche markets—many for ethnic and cultural minorities—that are becoming more accessible in the digital age. The panelists expressed enthusiasm about the ability to innovate to reach targeted audiences in new ways.
Mad about mobile
Posted 9/28/2011 3:54:00 PM
NEW YORK-- Mobile isn’t limited to that cell phone in your pocket or pushed against your ear. Laptops, tablets, smart phones are all mobile devices and consumers use them all. If it’s not attached to the wall or sitting stationary on the desk, it’s a mobile device.
CNN’s Blueprint for success: A conversation with Scot Safron
Posted 9/28/2011 3:49:00 PM
NEW YORK -- CNN’s HLN network scored big and got lots of attention by broadcasting the Casey Anthony trial in its entirety. The network’s ratings soared, particularly among women, during the summer of 2011 while covering the trial in which Anthony was ultimately acquitted of first-degree murder in the death of her young daughter.
Now Scot Safon, who is executive vice president/CNN Worldwide and serves as general manager of HLN, sees an opportunity to broaden the channel’s appeal among women of color, especially African American women, by giving the Conrad Murray trial the same treatment. Murray, who was Michael Jackson’s doctor at the time of his death in 2009, is charged with involuntary manslaughter.
ESPN executive tells leaders: 'Leave your comfort zone'
Posted 9/19/2011 5:12:00 PM
NEW YORK -- Leon Carter’s formula for diversity is fairly simple: Among other steps, recruit talent from places where others don’t always look, leave your comfort zone to find voices unlike yours, advocate for diversity when the newsroom staff levels are cut, and grow your own from among newcomers to the business.
Carter, vice president and executive editor of
ESPNNewYork.com, was interviewed by Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs Sree Sreenivasan in a session titled “ESPN: Blueprint for Success" during the second “ASNE Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent and Revenue” summit at The New York Times Conference Center.
Author encourages leaders to leverage existing diversity
Posted 9/19/2011 1:46:00 PM
NEW YORK -- Frans Johansson, author of the groundbreaking bestseller, “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation,” encouraged those at the “ASNE Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent and Revenue” summit to leverage their existing diversity. “We are attracted to people similar to ourselves. So we need to make new combinations occur,” he noted. “It’s easier to come up with creative ideas if you surround yourself with people who are different from yourself.”
Sulzberger encourages news industry to 'embrace diversity'
Posted 9/19/2011 9:56:00 AM
NEW YORK --Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The New York Times, today challenged the news industry “to embrace diversity and take action to transform your organizations” in the face of tremendous changes in technology, demographics and the economy.
His remarks opened the second “ASNE Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent and Revenue” summit at The New York Times Conference Center. Sulzberger was upbeat about some responses to the news industry's financial difficulties. "Nevertheless," he said, "without a diverse group of journalists crafting the news that people want to read, there would be no audience, no monthly uniques to measure, no subscribers or followers on Twitter."
Second ASNE Leadership In Diversity Session to begin Sept. 19
Posted 9/8/2011 3:33:00 PM
More than 60 media company executives have signed up to participate in the second in a series of ASNE Leadership in Diversity sessions that will be held Monday and Tuesday, September 19 and 20 at The New York Times. Participants will include publishers, CEOs, advertising, news and digital media executives from media companies throughout the country.
Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent and Revenues
Posted 6/3/2011 1:47:00 PM
The American Society of News Editors is coordinating two working sessions on diversity in the news business – one in conjunction with the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Orlando in June and another in New York in September. The sessions will involve more than 100 top news, digital and business executives, and selected non-news executives whose companies have executed successful efforts to reach communities of color.