Note: The following resources are all from external sources. Please do your due diligence when reviewing or using them as reference.
The Diversity Style Guide’s Resources
The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity. The guide includes terms and phrases related to race/ethnicity; religion; sexual orientation; gender identity; age and generation; drugs and alcohol; and physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.
Included within:
Asian American Journalists Association and its Handbook to Covering Asian America
Media Takes: On Aging, a publication of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and Aging Services of California
Michigan State University School of Journalism cultural competence series:
100 Questions, 500 Nations (co-sponsored by the Native American Journalists Association)
100 Questions and Answers About Veterans: A Guide for Civilians
National Association of Black Journalists and the NABJ Style Guide
National Center on Disability and Journalism and the Disability Style Guide
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and the NLGJA Stylebook Supplement on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Terminology
Race Forward’s Race Reporting Guide
TEAM Up (Tools for Entertainment and Media), a project of the Entertainment Industries Council, and the TEAM Up Reporting on Mental Health Style Guide
American Psychological Association’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion “Inclusive Language Guidelines”
The guidelines for bias-free language contain both general guidelines for writing about people without bias across a range of topics and specific guidelines that address the individual characteristics of age, disability, gender, participation in research, racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and intersectionality. These guidelines and recommendations were crafted by panels of experts on APA’s bias-free language committees and should be used in conjunction with APA’s inclusive language guidelines.
Included within:
General Principles for Reducng Bias
Historical Context
Age
Disability
Gender
Participation in Research
Racial and Ethnic Identity
Sexual Orientation
Socioeconomic Status
Intersetionality
Included within:
The Indigenous Media Guides
NAJA Tribal Nations Media Guide