Program Update: Second convening of the Maynard 200 Fellowship kicks off!
October 13, 2021
The Maynard Institute looks forward to welcoming back all 44 of our Maynard 200 2021 Fellowship cohort on Monday, October 25th for their second and final formal training week.
Maynard Family Update: Associated Press announces Amanda Barrett as new VP
October 5, 2021
We congratulate Amanda Barrett as she reflects on how the Maynard Institute programs have impacted her career.
Reckoning with news media's missing white woman syndrome
October 1, 2021
The Maynard Institute is asked to comment on how newsrooms wrestled with the Gabby Petito tragedy and inequitable coverage of non-white missing persons and murder victims.
Maynard Family Update: Oakland Voices correspondent Marabet Morales Sikahall joins Chapter 510
September 30, 2021
As Chapter 510's new Program & Community Manager, Marabet Morales Sikahall shares how the Oakland Voices program helped her become more confident in her community storytelling.
Maynard Institute board member Kevin Merida named executive editor of the L.A. Times
May 4, 2021
Longtime journalist Kevin Merida, who has served on the board of the Maynard Institute since 2014 and participated in the Maynard Institute Summer Program for Minority Journalists in 1979, was named the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, one...
The Maynard Institute Welcomes the 2021 Maynard 200 Fellows
April 8, 2021
44 Media Professionals to Receive Career Advancement Training and Mentorship by Top Experts to Foster Equity and Belonging in Newsrooms and Beyond
Vision25: 5 ways to get involved in the movement for racial equity in newsrooms
March 2, 2021
The Online News Association, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and OpenNews are committed to dismantling systemic racism in the journalism industry and transforming news organizations into institutions of belonging.
The Maynard Institute Announces 2021 Maynard 200 Fellowship To Advance Media Professionals Of Color
February 19, 2021
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education [MIJE], a nonprofit dedicated to making newsrooms look like America, has announced it will hold its signature Maynard 200 fellowship program in 2021.
Maynard Institute Announces Dates for 2021 Program of the Maynard 200 Journalism Fellowship
January 12, 2021
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education [MIJE] will hold its signature Maynard 200 fellowship program in 2021, starting with a virtual training week April 12-16.
Remembering Chris Cage
December 8, 2020
Richard S. Holden wore many hats in his illustrious life – all of them well. He was an editor extraordinaire. The first memory for most participants in the Maynard Institute’s Editing Program for Minority Journalists is that he had been...
Maynard Institute Seeks Racial Equity, DEI and Restorative Justice Consultants for Newsroom Embed Initiative
December 1, 2020
The Maynard Institute seeks practitioners, consultants and firms that specialize in diversity, racial equity training, organizational transformation to help execute its Equity and Inclusion Transformation Program.
Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms
October 1, 2020
Today, we’re announcing Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms, a catalyst in a social change movement that seeks to build journalistic institutions where newsrooms are actively anti-racist and collaborative, and journalists of color feel like they truly belong. This movement...
Remembering Richard S. Holden
April 21, 2020
Richard S. Holden wore many hats in his illustrious life – all of them well. He was an editor extraordinaire. The first memory for most participants in the Maynard Institute’s Editing Program for Minority Journalists is that he had been...
Remembering Eugene Kane
April 21, 2020
Eugene Kane, a longtime columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a graduate of the Maynard Institute’s Summer Program for Minority Journalists, died April 16 at the age of 63. Kane was known for his award-winning column, Raising Kane, in...
Maynard 200, Oakland Voices Fellows and Alumni Participate in Solutions Journalism Webinar on Covering the Outbreak
April 14, 2020
MIJE partnered with Solutions Journalism Network, which presented a webinar on April 3, on covering the COVID-19 pandemic. Fellows and alumni of the Maynard Institute’s Maynard 200 and Oakland Voices programs attended and shared their own coverage of the public...
Maynard Institute and Northwestern University Partner for Maynard 200 Journalism Fellowship in San Francisco
February 18, 2020
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications announce their partnership for this year’s Maynard 200 journalism fellowship program, aligned in their mission to galvanize diversity in media and to bolster...
Knight Foundation Awards $1.2 million Grant To Maynard Institute To Help Transform American Newsrooms
August 5, 2019
We have some very exciting news to report. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced $1.2 million in new funding for the Maynard Institute for us to develop an in-depth transformation program for news organizations to help...
Converse & Convene
November 5, 2018
With trust in the media still recovering from an all-time low in 2016, the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education convened a group of journalists and other stakeholders Oct. 29 for a candid conversation about their roles in a...