RESOURCE MATERIAL / PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR EDITORS

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Guidelines for countering racial, ethnic and religious profiling Guidelines for countering racial, ethnic and religious profiling in coverage of the war on terrorism, from the US Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The SPJ urges journalists to use language that is informative and not inflammatory; to portray Muslims, Arabs and Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans in a way that reflects the richness of their diverse experiences; and to seek truth through a variety of voices and perspectives. (SPJ)

		• Kit measures how inclusive and representative your coverage is The Maynard Institute's 'Reality Checks' kit provides tools for measuring and discussing how accurately the news reflects the realities of America's multicultural society. The kit provides tools for an analysis of both your community's characteristics and your local newspaper content through the prism of the fault lines of race, gender, class, generation and geography. The purpose is to help journalists make news coverage more inclusive and representative of their communities.
•	The newsroom diversity challenge. Are you up to it? An interactive game from 'The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education' in the US, which puts players in the role of an editor and challenges them to diversify a typical newsroom, while testing their basic knowledge of cultures. As editor, you have just been appointed editor of a mid-size newspaper and the publisher has asked you to move aggressively to diversify newsroom staffing and the paper's content. Are you up to it?
•	Human Resources Diversity Policy of the Seattle Times To make diversity the way of life at The Seattle Times requires more than a series of programs. It requires a long-range strategic approach that operates at all levels and in all aspects of our work. It also requires effectively moving beyond affirmative action, which may be necessary to achieve a diverse work force, to valuing and managing the diversity among our people....... (The Diversity Policy Statement was originally distributed to all Seattle Times employees on September 28, 1992)
•	Reporting Diversity: A Checklist - 1 Reporting on diversity means reflecting all members of the community in a fair and accurate manner, and applying equal standards of scrutiny for all groups...... (This Checklist was developed by journalists, journalism professors and diversity advisers at a workshop at Carleton University in June, 1995)
•	What Does Diversity Mean ? We heard that diversity was necessary, first, because truth more likely emerges from hearing diverse opinions. Without a diverse discussion in newsrooms, journalists often lack the context to ask the right questions and risk becoming disconnected from large segments of the community...... (This is a summary of the third of more than 16 sessions around the country sponsored by the committee of Concerned Journalists examining the principles journalists share. This one, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on February 2, 1998, focused on the question of what diversity should mean in the newsroom)
•	12 Steps to Opening up the Newspaper To diversify, to open up coverage, to grow, to move fast, newspapers are beginning to discover they need to make big changes. I call these broad moves toward new people, practices and products the creation of The Open Newspaper..... (by Eric Newton - The Freedom Forum)
•	Transmitting Values: A Guide for Fairer Journalism