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… The Diversity Institute was established and funded by the Freedom Forum to be a school dedicated to recruiting, training, mentoring and retaining a diverse workforce in the newsrooms of the United States. The Diversity Institute is committed to helping media companies develop a workforce that reflects the multicultural makeup of the communities they serve and was inspired by the challenge from Freedom Forum Founder Al Neuharth: “The First Amendment guarantees a free press. We in the media must make sure it is a fair press” … (who we are 1/2).
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Who we are 2/2: … The Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, Inc., is a Tennessee public charity corporation with offices, staff, programs and classes at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville, at the Al Neuharth Media Center in Vermillion, S.D., and at the Freedom Forum headquarters and Newseum in Washington, D.C.
All Freedom Forum journalism diversity programs are operated by the Diversity Institute. In partnership with Belmont University in Nashville and the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, the Diversity Institute offers undergraduate-level courses for college credit. The institute also runs three journalism internship and scholarship programs, provides mentoring and coaching to rising journalists, and host workshops, conferences and other training programs for journalism students and professionals. The school’s curriculum emphasizes First Amendment responsibilities, ethical and professional practices and teaches story-telling skills needed in multiplatform and multimedia journalism.
The Diversity Institute admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration or its educational policies, scholarships and other school-administered programs.
For more information about the Diversity Institute, contact Jack Marsh, president, by e-mail, or: 1207 18th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.