The Denver Newspaper Guild Local 37074 is a union of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska newspaper employees, and employees working for unions and nonprofit organizations in the state. The Guild negotiates contracts, ensures that those contracts are honored and strives to make our workplace the best it can be, just as our counterparts do in more than 100 cities in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. For more than 70 years the Guild has worked for good wages and benefits, fair working conditions, and a voice on the job. Our membership is a diverse group, but has a common bond in the belief that respect for workers’ rights builds stronger jobs and stronger communities.
SUPPORT FROM COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT
Advancing Equity 2023, 2022
2023 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support ongoing efforts to strengthen the capacity of Denver Post reporters to connect with non-English speaking Coloradans, with an emphasis tracking improvements against quarterly source audits.
2023 Advancing Equity Update: This grant has enabled the Denver Post to provide translation services to reporters working on stories in Spanish-speaking communities, which has helped their team establish stronger relationships with both the community-based translators, and the communities involved in the stories. This has led them to engage Cynthia Lozano, recommended by another CMP grantee, as a Latinx Community Engagement consultant, to advise the Post’s distribution strategy of Latinx/focused stories via community channels, including social media and whatsapp groups. Both CPR and Denver Post have discovered the need for additional trust-building with community members to support a successful source audit, as community members have communicated concerns and uncertainty as to how the personal data collected will be used.
2022 Advancing Equity Award: $10,000 to support externally-led DEI training for Denver Post journalists and local news leaders.
2022 Advancing Equity Impact: We were able to use the grant to provide fantastic DEI training that was journalism-focused. Our training was attended by our entire newsroom, including management and leadership. We now have a common language to speak as a newsroom when it comes to DEI – a starting point that provided opportunities for further discussions and development but made it so that we are on the same page and gave us a wonderful base education on topics ranging from microaggressions in the workplace to bias in our news coverage.
The training taught us about the "fault lines" that make us unique and also make us subject to bias and, potentially, discrimination. By learning about race, gender, sexual orientation, generation, geography and class as they apply to journalists and the journalism we do, we are better educated when interacting with communities different from our own.