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Newsrooms, your edit test is where being inclusive starts
By Kathy Lu
Posted onNewsrooms expect a lot from job applicants without giving much thought to what else could be going on in their lives. A freelancer applying for your job is not working on a paying gig. An edit test over a weekend means someone working full time is not getting space for rest. And the reward for all this work is: You might be a finalist—or you might never hear back. If you’re a newsroom working toward creating an inclusive culture, one that values its employees and their time, here are seven ideas to reimagine your application process.
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How we improved the engineering internship recruitment process at The Washington Post
By Holden Foreman and Emily Liu
Posted onInternships can be a great opportunity for students to gain professional experience and for employees to mentor the next generation of engineers, but news organizations that aren’t careful and intentional when recruiting can risk inadvertently over-indexing on candidates with the most access to time, money, and social connections. Since our team loves finding ways to make our processes better, we decided to examine our internship hiring process and see where we could make improvements.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: How to (not) ask for help finding applicants for your program or job
By Angilee Shah
Posted onIf you’ve already posted your job description, you might be too late to get the truly diverse pool of applicants you were hoping for.
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Newsroom Execs and Managers: Ways to Uphold Your Diversity and Inclusivity Values During COVID-19
By Sisi Wei
Posted onOur values are even more important during a crisis. Here are a few practical strategies for thinking through tough decisions in an equitable and inclusive way.
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Hacking Our Hiring: What You Can Do Right Now
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onSuggestions for getting started, if you want to hack your hiring based on our series.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Fair & Useful In-Person Interviews
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe fifth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Let’s Talk About Screening
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe fourth in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Are Cover Letters Really Necessary?
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onPart of our in-depth series on making hiring better for everyone.
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Hacking Our Hiring, Pt. 2: How to Screen Better
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe second in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times Interactive News Team.
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Hacking Our Hiring: Why You Need to Plan Better
By Tiff Fehr
Posted onThe first in a series of in-depth breakdowns, all about hiring at The New York Times.
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How to Diversify Your Newsroom, Starting Now
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onEmma Carew Grovum’s action steps toward diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizational cultures.
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Salary and Benefits Negotiation for News Nerds
By Soo Oh
Posted onHow to negotiate a salary and benefits in the age of anxiety.
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Better Onboarding, Better Retention, Happier Humans
By Melody Kramer and Kate Travis
Posted onOnboarding is really important for new employees—many make the decision to stay or leave during the first six months of employment, according to Project Include–but it’s also incredibly important for employers.
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Reinventing the Wheel, Over and Over Again
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onLike most managers within the journalism industry, Squire received no training or guidance on how to hire. Hiring managers are left to develop their own systems, and a candidate’s experience at a company can widely vary depending on how the hiring manager does things.
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Journalism Needs Better Skills Testing
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onThe main takeaway was to be intentional about your hiring process.
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When Hiring Isn’t Hell It Looks Like This
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onLast week, I published an open letter to hiring managers highlighting how broken the hiring process is in journalism. The response was overwhelming. Almost all of the feedback was from people, mostly women, sharing stories of similar, frustrating experiences. That made the good experiences shine like gems, so I asked people to tell me more about what good hiring practices and processes stood out to them while interviewing and hiring.
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Ms. Management: I Hope You Find the Time to Read this Column
By Stacy-Marie Ishmael
Posted onIf you’re the kind of person who is into both checks on the executive branch and the finer points of employment law, you may already have come across the case of KNTV, Inc. and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL–CIO. If not—and who can blame you—a quick primer: that case set the precedent that an employer’s use of the phrase “I hope you” could be reasonably construed as “coercive.”
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An Open Letter to Newsroom Hiring Managers
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onHow newsroom hiring practices can serve everyone better.
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Ms. Management: The Hard Work of Hiring Well
By Stacy-Marie Ishmael
Posted onIn this installment of Ms. Management, we learn why a better interview process is better for everyone, not just the applicants.
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Source Hiring & Appreciations
By Erin Kissane
Posted onWe’re planning many changes and additions to Source over the course of 2015. I’ll write about those as they happen, but our first announcement is about changes behind the scenes. I am very happy to announce a new opening for an assistant editor, to join me and the rest of the team in keeping Source watertight and pointed in the right direction. If that sounds like you or someone you know, please take a look at the job description and send us a résumé.
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