Were the mentors only in the news room??

How far in were the Stay Interviews done? After an employee is there how long? Thanks

Did you also leverage your Community Advisory Board for the listening sessions?

WFAE’s work is so exciting. Are you measuring the impact all your efforts are having on enhancing the diversity of your radio and digital audiences?

This is fantastic work. have you seen an impact on the racial dynamics of your broadcast audience?

The mentors have started only in the newsroom. We are in the process of extending the program to the whole company.

Yes, very impressive. I'll send some nuts and bolts questions directly if I may.

The stay interviews start within the first couple of months and are ongoing. We've been doing them less than a year.

We do leverage the CAB for feedback. I try to attend every meeting to give them updates and get their feedback. We send them all of our surveys and they all know they can contact me at any time.Re tracking and broadcast audiences, we are looking at our coverage and how it influences our listening. We've seen it increase dramatically among Latino listeners, for example, during our coverage of the local sheriff's ICE enforcement activities. Our Black audience has been historically higher, so it's harder to tease out any increase there that's based on programming. But the anecdotes from listeners have increased there. We are seeing our digital numbers soar and the individual outreach to us about our coverage of these issues has been tremendous.

Thank you!

Ju-Don, during the pandemic, have you continued any of the outreach into the diverse spaces mentioned, since it appeared much of it was in-person.

For what it’s worth, I’ve used this language - cribbed from the Washington Post - in outreach for job postings: “We are committed at@nhpr to creating opportunities for people from groups who’ve been underrepresented in journalism generally and in our newsroom in particular.”

Is it seen as dangerous or risky to take out the Journalism Degree requirement out of news room job postings?

Thanks Jim!

Chuck: I don’t have a journalism degree, and it hasn’t held me back.

Tom Michael, we are doing virtual town halls, forums and workshops with the community. We have a virtual community event with our collaborators coming up this weekend and we have two virtual storyteller events that incorporates community storytellers planned for early in the year. And we just did a virtual Podcast Festival that attracted more than 13,000 registrants. So we're really embracing the virtual opportunity to connect with those who might in other times have difficulty getting to a physical location because of jobs, child care, carfare, etc.

Is the University (UWM's HR) concerned about race-based positions and federal funds to the institution? . I know we have changed "anti-racism" to other terms due to current federal language that is not friendly to that.

thanks, this is great, I will check out the recording as I missed the beginning and have to leave now for another zoom. Really helpful and I like that WFAE and WUWM are in different places. John, I'll be in your backyard later this month so please keep it from snowing too much!

Congrats Ju-Don on the Podcast Festival Huge numbers. I’ve sidestepped the college degree requirement for a hire at current station and a previous station.

I'm happy to answer any other questions about our work. You can reach me at jmarshall@wfae.org.

Thank you Ju Don..very inspiring.

A lot of great info, Ju-Don. Nice seeing you!

Thanks Vanessa