Ways to support disabled journalists in your newsroom

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One of the questions I have received the most during my RJI fellowship was about how many disabled journalists are working in newsrooms. It is impossible to know because disability is not included in most newsroom diversity reports.

There are notable disabled journalists like Serge F. Kovaleski, Wendy Lu, Eric Garcia, and Sara Luterman, but often disabled journalists are as invisible in our industry as disabled people are in society.

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