In September of last year, the Ida B. Wells Society launched a year-long partnership with Riverside High School's journalism class taught by Bryan Christopher. The project, funded by a grant provided by Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand, allows for a class of 33 students to get hands-on experience in investigative journalism by working with two local reporters and a number of prominent journalists across the country. One key feature of the program is monthly workshops coordinated by the Society. The first workshop was a kickoff event that included a virtual Q&A and brainstorming session with co-founders Ron Nixon and Topher Sanders. The kickoff was followed by...
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Q&A with Sisi Wei
January 21, 2022
Sisi Wei is the Co-Executive Director at OpenNews, where she envisions and executes transformative initiatives for journalism, especially for journalists of color and local journalists. As part of her work, Sisi founded the DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms in 2020, and led more than 100 members of the journalism community in co-creating and launching the DEI Coalition Slack space in March 2021. In 2021, Sisi won the Gwen Ifill Award, which honors a remarkable woman journalist of color whose work embodies Ifill’s legacy of supporting and elevating women of color in news media. Previously, she was the...
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December 2021 Member Spotlight: Roxanne Scott
December 16, 2021
Roxanne Scott lives in Queens, NY and is an audio producer at Futuro Media. Before that, she was a public radio reporter for more than five years. She’s produced stories on everything from bourbon to e-scooters to immigration detention centers. In her spare time she likes to read, visit different neighborhoods and sew. Where is your work featured/what organizations are you affiliated with? This year I started as a senior producer at Futuro Media’s new investigative unit. Prior to that, I worked at public radio station WABE News in Atlanta for almost three years and WFPL News in Louisville, Ky...
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Investigating Racism and Racial Inequality Workshop
January 26, 2022 6:00 pm
Join the Ida B. Wells Society for a workshop presented by Aaron Morrison and Andale Gross of the Associated Press’ race & ethnicity team. Our presenters will discuss finding the untold stories of marginalized communities and reporting accurately, comprehensively…
Investigating Education at the Local Level Workshop
February 1, 2022 6:00 pm
Join the Ida B. Wells Society for a virtual workshop presented by Lori Higgins and Patrick Wall of Chalkbeat on investigating education at the local level. Our presenters will draw from their years of experience in education reporting to…
Internship Preparation Session with NC A&T, Hampton and NCCU
February 7, 2022 5:30 pm
It’s hard to believe that summer internship application season is already upon us. We will be issuing a call for applications for the second annual Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Internship Program in February with even more news partners and…
