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UNITY Requests Review of the Decision Denying Visa
to Colombian Journalist
Hollman Morris is among a distinguished body of Nieman Fellows that, in the past, have included Colombian president-elect Juan Manuel Santos. Yet, the United States is refusing to allow Morris to enter the country for a year of study at Harvard University.
UNITY Receives Ford Foundation Grant to Advance Entrepreneurship Among Journalists of Color
UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc., has received a $100,000 grant from The Ford Foundation to implement a New U: News Entrepreneurs Working through UNITY (New U) project. The New U project will support the creative ideas of participating journalists of color through a series of two-day "boot camps" at each of the four summer 2010 UNITY alliance partners' conventions. Visit and bookmark UNITY's "NewU" section for more information and updates soon »
UNITY supports Ecuadorian journalists
NITY Journalists of Color supports its colleagues in Ecuador and shares their concerns about a proposed new communications law being considered by the National Assembly. If approved, this law will affect press freedom and free speech by breaching Inter-American principles on the public's right to information.
Calling All Former UNITY Mentorship Program Participants
UNITY needs your help. Take a quick online survey and help us improve our services to you and other journalists of color. Here's the link.
Comments Regarding Network Neutrality Filed with the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISIONS (FCC)
On behalf of our alliance, representing over 8,000 journalists of color, we urge the Federal Communications Commission to protect the openness of the Internet with strong Network Neutrality rules. We have a golden opportunity to avoid repeating the media's mistakes of the past, and we must seize the moment.
RNC chairman refuses to apologize for derogatory comment about American Indians
Native American Journalists president accused RNC Chairman Michael Steele of having a "scurrilous tongue." But Steele is fighting back, saying NAJA and other groups should "get in line" if they want to fight with him. NAJA statement »
Barbara Ciara: Is racial sensitivity a learned behavior?
 I remember the first time I heard the N-word. Even though I didn't know what it meant or why the person said it, I just knew it was a bad thing, because of how it made me feel.
UNITY Elects New Leadership
Barbara Ciara, immediate past president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), has been elected president of UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., to complete the term vacated by Rafael Olmeda, who resigned as UNITY president this past week.
UNITY launches survey on media diversity
In partnership with the Leading Edge Associates (LEA), UNITY is conducting research to examine how diversity in media organizations has been affected by the economic disruption of the industry. This study is part of UNITY's Retention Through Reinvention Project funded by The Ford Foundation. Take the survey online now »
Job losses in the news industry significantly outpace
losses in the overall economy
MCLEAN, Va. — Since the Lehman Bros. collapse last September, the journalism industry lost jobs at almost three times the rate of jobs lost in the economy each month, according to the UNITY 2009 Layoff Tracker Report.
UNITY Selects Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for 2012 Convention
The UNITY board of directors heard presentations from two other cities, Los Angeles and Houston, before selecting Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay property as the host site. Los Angeles was selected as the backup city.
Job losses set back newsroom diversity initiatives
Blacks and Asians are losing jobs in America's newsrooms at a faster rate than whites and other minorities, setting back progress made in decades of diversity initiatives. UNITY: Journalists of Color is calling journalism organizations to a summit to help preserve the fundamental value of diversity in news coverage and newsroom staffing.
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