Events for week of September 6, 2026

In this virtual forum, community news media journalists will receive briefings from community-based organizations and AAPI-led research initiatives to inform your coverage of AAPI voters in New York and nationwide.

In a year in which four billion people are scheduled to vote in 25 elections, the world already looks very different. This three-part series on Covering Elections from the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism will focus on press freedom and the safety challenges of reporting on the U.S. election. The series is co-sponsored by…

Three years ago, the Black Media Initiative published Why Black Media Matters Now, a comparative analysis between Black and mainstream media during the last presidential election cycle. The research showed that Black media talked about topics of importance to Black communities more often, and connected news events to history in a way mainstream media did not. How has this work evolved in this election cycle?

Who decides which stories get told?    Join us for a screening of the documentary, "Breaking The News," hosted by award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen.    The film follows a group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists who are fighting the white male-dominated status quo by launching The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation and highlight issues of gender in national…