We are excited to announce that the 2019 Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP) will take place on Sept. 20-22 in Williamsburg, Va. Cited by The New York Times as one of the 52 Places to Go in 2019, Williamsburg provides the opportune backdrop for this year’s conference theme: “Facing Our Past, Defining Our Future.”

Read and download the 2018 Annual Report here. The report contains snapshots of JAWS' efforts and outreach throughout the year, a timeline of major milestones, highlights from recent keynote speeches and financial information.

The Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) is committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive, supportive and safe environment for all, regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, religion, socioeconomic status or political beliefs.

I’m proud to report that Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) has taken several major steps to address racist and offensive statements made during last year’s Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP) in Oregon. Thanks to the guidance of Dr. Mary J. Wardell, our diversity and inclusion consultant who was just hired in December, our board has penned a new Code of Conduct that spells out how members should treat one another — and what might happen if these rules of engagement are broken.

The Journalism & Women Symposium stands in solidarity with award-winning journalist Brittany Noble Jones and other women journalists, particularly Black women, whose employers have discriminated against them because of their gender and race.

In these last 30+ years, this network has grown to nearly 700 members, offering around-the-year webinars, regional events and an annual conference that attracts top-notch speakers, cutting-edge workshops and some of the biggest news leaders in the country.

The Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) is pleased to announce it has received a $50,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. These funds will assist the organization’s hiring of a full-time Executive Director, in tandem with the Democracy Fund grant awarded earlier this year, and provide support to regional groups around the country.

Do you want to brush up on the lessons you learned at CAMP 2018, or check out info from a session you missed? Thanks to our 2018 fellows who prepared tip sheets and interviewed our keynote speakers, presenters who shared resources and attendees live-tweeted, we have a collection of tip sheets, videos and other media here.

About 44 percent of Americans have listened to podcasts. That number is growing every year. In fact, most podcast listenership comes from women.

Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Diana Henriques teams up with veteran editor and author Jane Isay to take the audience from the germ of an idea for a book through the thinking, the selling, the writing, the editing, and the publishing process.

Stories about LGBTQ communities are often relegated to the same issues. Activists call for more plurality in the voices presented, and for reporters to report on all issues as they affect LGBTQ communities, as well as the varied lived experiences of LGBTQ folks.

JAWS is an organization I have been honored to be a part of for many years, not just because it is led by women who broke down newsroom barriers for women but because it has provided me a safe space to vent about being a woman of color in mostly all-white and all-male workplaces for most of my career. Unfortunately, CAMP was not a safe space for many of us this year.

Solutions journalism is rigorous enterprise reporting in response to social problems. Solutions journalism is not advocacy, PR, “fluffy” good news or hero worship. It uses high journalistic standards to look critically at ideas and efforts to see if and how they’re actually working on the ground.

Hill said, “We cannot disturb the peace unless we face the uncomfortable truths about this business. It’s too white, too male, too elitist and it’s too corporate … It’s 2018. If you don’t know how to find Black and Latino people for your newsroom, it’s because you don’t care ...”

The Journalism and Women Symposium condemns President Donald Trump's recent attacks on members of the White House Press Corps, especially black women journalists and other reporters of color.

There is a fire-hose of information available out there when it comes to election money—dark money is called that for a reason but beyond that there is a lot of detail to glean from campaign finance reports and sites that have made that data searchable.

Rachel Jones has been a journalist for 32 years, starting at The St. Petersburg Time in 1986. She came to health reporting through personal experience. “I fell at a young age, cracked a tooth, and we couldn’t afford to go to a dentist,” she said.

In order to actually walk the walk on creating diversity and inclusion in your newsroom, you need to focus on retention, holding yourself to specific goals and broaden your ideas about and practices of hiring.

Science is the art of learning how NOT to fool ourselves, and can teach us a few tricks that come in especially handy for journalists. Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it can’t make a difference.

Journalists who have reported abroad offered tips for how to find international work — and how to survive once you’re there. When reporting in other countries, be willing to lay down your assumptions about how you’ll be treated as a woman and where you’ll live. Learn the local norms and language. Be wise about which battles you choose to fight.