Diversity Workshop with SPJ

Michele Haddon

Michele Haddon is an award-winning multimedia journalist covering food, dining, small business, economic recovery and revitalization in the Philadelphia suburbs of Bucks County for The Intelligencer and Bucks County Courier Times. Prior…

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Stephen Jiwanmall

Stephen Jiwanmall (he/him) is an assistant professor of communication at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He teaches courses in journalism, media production and public relations. Stephen worked as a multimedia journalist for eight years,…

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Rick Kearns

Rick Kearns is an award-winning freelance journalist, poet and teacher who has written for daily, weekly and monthly news publications since 1986. His work has focused on Latino and Native American issues….

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Cate Barron

Cate Barron championed diversity, equity and inclusion throughout her 44-year career in journalism. As president of PA Media Group, she built a robustly diverse company and leadership team. In her recent retirement,…

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Rod Hicks

Rod Hicks is director of ethics and diversity at the Society of Professional Journalists. He creates projects, conducts training, gives speeches and writes stories about the need for journalists to adhere to…

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Joyce Davis

Joyce M. Davis is PennLive and The Patriot-News outreach and opinion editor. Joyce began her journalism career at The Times-Picayune as a night-side reporter. She is a national and international news analysis…

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