JEANC Workshop

Oct. 15, 2011

Davis Senior High

HUB & bluedevilhub.com

Diversity Audit We write down the

name of EVERY student named or photographed in our newspaper, web site, or radio news show.

We classify them and compare to school statistics as a whole.

One year’s results for newspaper!

CategoryActual percentage at Davis High

Percentage in first two issues of The HUB

Percentage on HUB staff (what impact does this have?!)

Female 52.5% 53% 75%

Male 47.5% 47% 25%

Senior 32% 49.6% 63%

Junior 33.5% 37.8% 34%

Sophomore 33.9% 3%10.2%

And more…

CategoryActual percentage at Davis High

Percentage in first two issues of The HUB

Percentage on HUB staff (what impact does this have?!)

African American

4% 3.1% 0%

White 60% 64%

Asian 19% 16.5% 29%

Latino 13% 7%

74%

6.3%

Now what?

Communicate results to our readers for accountability

On our front page…

Listen to “the voiceless” and use information for story assignments

Soundslides or video! Good practice/

review of technology

Not abstract …here’s a real person that we need to represent in our publication

Watch in class Come up with a story in each section that

this person would want to read (and everyone wants to read about someone he/she knows)

Your turn!

News Feature OpEd Entertainment Sports

The Citizen Bill of Journalism Rights:

“We have the right to expect that journalists will monitor power and give voice to the voiceless”

The ‘Public Service’ Pulitzer 2003—The Boston Globe: Sexual abuse by

priests 2008—The Washington Post: Mistreatment of

wounded veterans 2009—Las Vegas Sun: Death rate among

construction workers on the Strip

12 workers dead to zero

Society of Professional Journalists:

SEEK TRUTH AND REPORT IT

Journalists should…

Tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience boldly, even when it is unpopular to do so.

Avoid stereotyping by race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, geography, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance or social status.

Support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant.

Give voice to the voiceless; official and unofficial sources of information can be equally valid.

In the HUB Voice to the voiceless: White Student Union,

special ed students taking the CAHSEE, Korean families making do without dad

Monitor power: use of legal supplements at football breakfasts, evaluate new principal’s performance, “no dating” policy for women’s basketball team, editorial criticism of daily announcements, medical marijuana challenges to school policy

How The HUB does story assignments:

Randomly assigned groups

Each group has to come up with stories that fit ‘Voice to the Voiceless’ and ‘Monitor Power’ imperatives

Your Turn! Your group needs

to think of story ideas for news, feature, sports, and op-ed sections that fit VV or MP categories.