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Even without hopping on planes it has felt like a busy conference season. Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism is taking their annual forum virtual for the first time this year – registration is free and offers the opportunity to connect with journalists and media professionals from across the Middle East and around the world and explore topics from COVID-10’s impact on the region to press freedom and information access to making media businesses more sustainable (including a proposal-writing workshop from yours truly). 

In September, Splice Beta offered a virtual buffet of smart tips and strategies for media startups in Asia that media organizations anywhere and at any stage of growth might find worthwhile – you can browse their archive and synopses here. I had a great time talking shop with my GIJN colleague Caroline Langston Jarboe and we got some great questions from participants.  The Splice team also offers an extremely smart and helpful primer on how to organize your virtual event/conference in a way that preserves a feeling of community and inclusion. 

Even among mission-driven nonprofit newsrooms founded to disrupt the status quo and diversify the voices and stories represented in media, there is extensive room for improvement, INN’s recent report demonstrates. They’ve also produced a helpful roundup of resources for advancing conversations about diversity and dismantling racism in newsrooms and organizations, with contributions from folks from the Ford Foundation, Center for Cooperative Media, The 19th*, and others.  This fall’s call to action and report from a consortium of journalism funders highlights the need to invest more in leadership and communities of color and center decision-making in these communities.

I’ve appreciated the work Community-Centric Fundraising is doing to reorient fundraising conversations around the good of the entire community and as transformational rather than transactional. The always astute Vu Le, one of CCF’s leaders, has called worthwhile attention to some of the nonprofit field’s problematic paradoxes and opportunities to shift the conversation to how we can best advance social  and economic justice rather than just raise the most money. 

And Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy is a wonderful new resource for recruiting and networking that has helped showcase the voices and achievements of the diverse women in this field.