Stories About Ariel Zych
How to hire a sensitivity editor
The identity readers, editors, and consultants you can hire right now.
Contracting and paying sensitivity readers
What to pay and where to code your 2024 sensitivity budget expenditures.
Sensitivity work extends far beyond word choice
Images, framing, narrative and more — the incredible breadth of arenas in which exclusion can happen for a single story — and how easy it is to prevent it.
It takes real effort to make journalism inclusive
Sensitivity professionals nudge newsrooms up the effort-to-impact ramp towards inclusion.
A sensitivity editor takes on my tweets
What it looks like when a small newsroom tries a little harder.
The argument for sensitivity readers
Equity cannot be achieved through staffing alone Some years ago my news organization began employing sensitivity readers in our work. We didn’t call it that at the time. The broad imperative of these sensitivity professionals was to help ensure that a story did not in any way harm or further marginalize identity communities featured in … Continued
Introducing the 2023-2024 RJI Fellows
The newest class of RJI Fellows is working to help newsrooms engage with and accurately represent their communities. Their innovative and practical projects range from teaching journalists how to work with amateur radio operators during natural disasters to improving the quality of reporting on Latino and Hispanic communities.