With the first presidential debate of the 2008 campaign days away, UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. wants to ensure this will be the last election cycle that fails to include women or people of color as moderators. UNITY, the largest organization of journalists in the world, calls on the Commission on Presidential Debates to reevaluate [...]
Thank you to those UNITY convention participants who attended our panel today on unconscious bias and media coverage featuring panelists Carole Simpson, Eva Paterson, Jack Dovidio and Roosevelt Thomas. Please post comments here with your feedback on the panel, any questions and other thoughts.
Sen. Barack Obama will speak tomorrow, Sunday, July 27 to attendees of UNITY ’08, here for the quadrennial convention of UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc. Obama’s speech will be the final event of a five-day conference that attracted nearly 7,000 journalists from across the country and will be televised live at 11 a.m. (CDT) from [...]
A great free service from MoFuse allows you to take the RSS of a site and create a slimmed down version for your mobile device. iPhone users see a customized version on their Safari browsers. Here’s the mobile version of the UNITY News site (you need to enter the URL into your mobile browser): http://unity08.mofuse.mobi
EJS President Eva Paterson joins a distinguished panel of speakers on a panel during the UNITY ’08 Convention, the nation’s largest gathering of journalists of color, taking place July 23-27 in Chicago. Nearly 10,000 journalists and media executives will meet to discuss timely issues affecting journalism and the media industry. Uncovering Unconscious Bias to Improve [...]