There’s a tricky line about how much and in what ways news organizations can take stands. As a rule, they’re not supposed to, in the spirit of being consumed and trusted by an array of people.
That’s changing fast. Still, we at Technically Media do preserve some of the traditional mindset that we aim to be trusted by people with lots of different political stripes.
- 2013: We co-facilitated Baltimore City Council’s first hearing on tech policy
- 2014: We established an event Code of Conduct
- 2014: We hosted an international Hack4Access code for good event
- 2015: We hosted a live podcast episode on tech inclusivity
- 2016: We announced we added “they” as a pronoun, before AP and other news orgs
- 2016: We engaged publicly on how to engage racial justice
Update: In 2021, our newsroom overruled me (!) to announce that we’d use Latinx for Latino sources.