{"id":612589,"date":"2022-02-10T14:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=612589"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:15:33","slug":"dei-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/dei-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NSPA launches national award
to honor reporting excellence
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Feb. 11, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Minnesota\u2019s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication<\/strong><\/a> has joined National Scholastic Press Association<\/strong><\/a> in launching NSPA\u2019s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new award will promote excellence in reporting on diversity, equity and inclusion in the nation\u2019s student press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elisia Cohen,<\/strong> professor and director of the Hubbard School, says connecting students to diverse organizations has always been a top priority through its partnership with NSPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to be one of the universities and programs that support the best in student journalism, and to do so in a way that honors and supports inclusive reporting that represents the best of scholastic and collegiate journalism,\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen is past president of the NSPA\/ACP board of directors. The award embodies the school\u2019s century of support as the associations celebrate their centennial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have learned, especially in the last few years, that the more diverse a newsroom, the more diverse the stories told,\u201d she said. \u201cOur mission is to create that pipeline of diverse student journalists early \u2014 to train them and prepare them to head out into the profession and cover stories from all corners of our world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Widmer,<\/strong> NSPA executive director, thanked the Hubbard School for its long-standing commitment to student journalism through its support of NSPA, its members and its programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudent journalists are leading the way in covering issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, and this award will only increase their efforts,\u201d Widmer said. \u201cWe are very excited about this new recognition, and we thank the Hubbard School for supporting it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSPA will begin accepting DEI entries as part of its annual awards program. Stories from all platforms are eligible, and NSPA membership is not required. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judges will review URLs for broadcast, web or digital content and PDFs for print. Eligible coverage will include but not be limited to race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and other differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finalists will be named prior to the winners, which will be announced at the Fall National High School Journalism Convention, which NSPA sponsors with Journalism Education Association.<\/a><\/strong> Winners receive a plaque and a $500 cash award presented by the Hubbard School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both NSPA and its partner, Associated Collegiate Press,<\/a><\/strong> will offer the new DEI awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to celebrate students who show potential and drive when telling stories that are ethical, truthful and important,\u201d Cohen said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe also want to encourage students to report stories to account for a range of human experience, and a media\/public information ecosystem that represents and includes varied groups and viewpoints in communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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NSPA Awards<\/a>
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Awards Archive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSPA launches national award to honor reporting excellence in diversity, equity & inclusion Feb. 11, 2022 The University of Minnesota\u2019s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication has joined National Scholastic Press Association in launching NSPA\u2019s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards. The new award will promote excellence in reporting on diversity, equity and inclusion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":612610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612589"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612641,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612589\/revisions\/612641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}