Representation in photojournalism is critical because those who control our news imagery control our collective visual narrative. As we have critical conversations around diversity and representation in news, we must take an
equally critical eye to who is making visual decisions — from the photographers behind the camera to the picture editors who assign and shape stories to the engagement teams who promote them on social media.
This session s for all visual storytellers, photojournalists, multimedia journalists, online journalists, freelancers—everyone in the business.
Visual leaders discuss how some organizations are working on ways to solve the inclusion challenge, especially with the under-representation of women and people of color in photojournalism.
See the appalling stats in this Vox piece by Kainaz Amaria and read
her Nieman Lab essay here.Conversations around diversity are overdue.
Our panelists will offer solutions-based advice in the following areas:
- Building diverse in-house teams
- Hiring diverse freelancers
- Assigning for inclusion
- Coaching visual journalist in new ways of seeing
- Making publishing decisions with these considerations
- Promoting stories in inclusive ways
Please join us for this important conversation — moderated by Troy Griggs of
The New York Times.