{"id":7965,"date":"2025-07-22T19:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:17:03","slug":"whole-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/whole-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing inclusivity in the newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Satvika Ramanathan presented a lesson on diversity in journalism for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association last year. Her high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has a diverse population, but can always strive to be better, she said. Next year, as editor-in-chief, she said she\u2019ll continue pushing for an inclusive newsroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Medill\u2019s cherubs program, instructors emphasize reflecting all perspectives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructors Ava Thompson Greenwell, Erin Ailworth and Joe Grimm lectured on \u201cReporting on the Whole Community.\u201d Greenwell went into history by discussing the 1968 Kerner Commission report on racism in the media. She has taught about the commission for six years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think it\u2019s really amazing that we are having these discussions in this space,\u201d Ramanathan said. \u201cDiversity and inclusion is something that\u2019s really close to my heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many cherubs will be editors at their publications. Dorie Xie, who will be editor-in-chief for her school in Los Altos, California, said she hopes she and other leaders take the lessons to their outlets. One is Greenwell\u2019s advice on whether to include someone\u2019s race or ethnicity in a story. She advised students to evaluate sentences by substituting identifiers to see if they are even needed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe replacing adjectives example and just being more aware of \u2026 how we\u2019re covering certain people, and how we\u2019re portraying different groups of people, whether intentionally or unintentionally, are all things that I will tell my staff about,\u201d Xie said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenwell said if the news media are ever going to truly represent the population, it\u2019s up to students to continue what she teaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe will never get there unless the next generations help us get there,\u201d Greenwell said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How cherubs reacted to and will implement the diversity lecture lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":9260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[494],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":494,"user_id":200,"is_guest":0,"slug":"stellableiweis","display_name":"Stella Bleiweis","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8d323bc2266824297771c8032785031dff4280290a25acba571c628b2c2f387?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bleiweis","first_name":"Stella","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10461,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/10461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}