DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE DOWNLOAD ALL PRESS ASSETS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  View MMCA Sheroes in Media Awards Reception Sizzle Reel MMCA HONORS “SHEROES IN MEDIA” CHAMPIONING MEDIA DIVERSITY 2024 Sheroes in Media Awards to Katina Arnold, Alicia Bell, Janet Dewart Bell, Yvette Cabrera, Nicole Dungca, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Tracie Powell, and Emily Wilkins,  Lifetime Achievement Award to Margery Kraus and Luminary Award to Janet Yang    WASHINGTON, DC&nd...Read More

DOWNLOAD PUBLISHABLE ARTICLE Born in New York to Chinese parents, Janet Yang went to China as a young woman and it changed her life. She suddenly found herself in a country "where everyone looked like me." She also found a mission: to bring Chinese cinema to North America, to help dispel stereotypes and change perspectives. "I thought, well, if people could see these films, they would respond in the way that I did -- which is, 'Oh, we look so much more three-dimensional on scree...Read More

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE National Association of Hispanic Journalists president Yvette Cabrera is inspiring when she outlines some of the things her organization has achieved in recent years – for example, the new Adelante Academy, just off its inaugural run and gearing up for another round. “It’s a Latina leadership program to develop leaders within the newsroom,” she says. “Just because you may be a good editor doesn’t mean you're necessarily a good manager.&rdquo...Read More

DOWNLOAD PUBLISHABLE STORY Katina Arnold, the vice-president of corporate communications at ESPN, is puzzled by an oddly lingering perception: That women aren't into sports.   "You know, we're some of its biggest fans," she says.  View MMCA 2024 Sheroes in Media Awards Acceptance Speech (Photo credit MMCA) She herself always loved sports, which not only brought her to her dream job today, but also has made her a noted advocate for women in athletics and women overall. T...Read More

DOWNLOAD STORY Founded more than 100 years ago, the National Press Club has been an enduring D.C institution ---and watering hole -- for reporters looking to entertain themselves and their sources and hear from leaders worldwide, And for many years the historic club was famous for being as non-diverse as they come – open only to white men, for example, until that barrier fell in 1955. For even longer women were excluded -- barred until 1971, when the press club members finally voted to e...Read More

DOWNLOAD PUBLISHABLE STORY Alicia Bell has long been in the vanguard of the drive to diversify newsrooms and also to right the wrongs that media organizations have inflicted upon Black people. Her most recent position is as director of the influential Racial Equity in Journalism Fund housed at the Borealis Philanthropy, but her work goes back further.  She was founding director of the Media 2070 group at Free Press, which called in 2020 for media reparations and "a national reckoning on t...Read More

DOWNLOAD PUBLISHABLE STORY Her mother was a motel maid. Her father could neither read nor write. But their daughter flourished with their unyielding support. “Education was a prime importance, even though they themselves were denied education,” says Janet Dewart Bell of her parents, who grew up in the rural South. Born in 1946, decades before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Dr. Bell came up in both a casually and deliberately racist America. She became an award-winning br...Read More

DOWNLOAD PUBLISHABLE STORY Though the Institute for Independent Journalists is oriented toward persons of color, its founder and president, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, no doubt speaks for freelancers everywhere when she makes this modest proposal: “Can I say the pay scale should be flipped between CEO and intern?”  “Because one of my biggest frustrations,” she continues, “is that there are so many people at the top who are just failing up – they launch a ...Read More

DOWNLOAD STORY Tracie Powell has spent years as a prominent activist creating access to media for people of color -- while creating a compelling story of her own. She is a longtime journalist battling racism in the profession she has loved since her childhood in Atlanta.  "I learned how to read by sitting on my father's and grandmother's laps as they read the newspaper," she says. "So I knew early on that I had ink in the blood, as they say, and I knew I wanted to be a journalist." As sh...Read More

How two efforts – one to build understanding between faith and the media, and one to strengthen BIPOC-owned and-serving media – can inform each other and yield more accurate coverage of faith and BIPOC communities.   By David Morgan   Media plays a critical role for our country – it shapes how we think about ourselves, one another, and our collective world. We rely on the media for guidance into the social, economic, and political events that we may not always be ...Read More