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NCDJ and The New York Times Renew Disability Reporting Fellowship

The National Center on Disability and Journalism is partnering for a third year with The New York Times on a fellowship to develop journalists with an expertise in coverage of disability issues.

Early career journalists are encouraged to apply for the one-year fellowship to cover disability issues and people with disabilities as part of the incoming New York Times Fellowship class.

The Disability Journalism Fellowship is designed to address the lack of coverage of disability issues in journalism. It will provide fellows with mentorship, a peer network and training on covering disabilities. The position is funded through the Ford Foundation’s philanthropic support.

Applications will be accepted through March 24.

For more information, see the full release.

NCDJ and The New York Times Renew Disability Reporting Fellowship

The New York Times and the National Center on Disability and Journalism
announced that they are, for the third year in a row, partnering on a fellowship to
develop journalists with an expertise in coverage of disability issues.

This program again will recruit an early career journalist to work at The Times for
one year as a member of the incoming New York Times Fellowship class. The
newsroom is prepared to hire another Disability Journalism Fellow in early 2024.
The Disability Journalism Fellowship is designed to address the lack of coverage
of disability issues in journalism. It will provide fellows with mentorship, a peer
network and training on covering disabilities. The position is funded through the
Ford Foundation’s philanthropic support.

The application for 2023 is now open.
The New York Times Fellowship is a one-year work program aimed at cultivating
and diversifying the next generation of journalists. Since 2019, it has trained
more than 120 participants in reporting, visual, audio and other
disciplines. Amanda Morris, the inaugural Disability Journalism Fellow, is now a
reporter covering the disability community for The Washington Post. Neelam
Bohra, the current Disability Journalism Fellow, will complete her fellowship in
May.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism is a service of the Walter
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State
University. For over a decade at Cronkite, the center has provided support and
training for journalists and other communications professionals with the goal of
improving media coverage of disability issues and people with disabilities.

Study Shows More Disability Stories Onscreen, but Few Disabled Actors

Let’s start with the good news: Significant depictions of disability on film and television shows have nearly tripled over the past decade compared with the previous 10 years.

Almost all of those titles, however, still don’t feature disabled actors.

The study published Wednesday also showed that television is far behind film when it comes to representation of characters with disabilities.

Read the full story here.

Disability rights advocates are worried about discrimination in AI hiring tools

Some companies that create AI hiring games, like Pymetrics and Arctic Shores, claim that they limit bias in hiring. But these games can be especially difficult to navigate for job seekers with disabilities.

In the latest episode of MIT Technology Review’s podcast “In Machines We Trust,” we explore how AI-powered hiring games and other tools may exclude people with disabilities. And while many people in the US are looking to the federal commission responsible for employment discrimination to regulate these technologies, the agency has yet to act.

Read the full story here.