Diversity

Diversity on Staff

I have always wanted to have as big and diverse a staff as possible on Eagle Valley Student Media. In order to achieve this, I had to find people that do not look like me and invite them to participate. Because of that, our staff has many diverse perspectives. We have athletes, actors, dancers, band members, NHS members, student council members, boys, girls, white, Hispanic, freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Diversity of Coverage

It is important that every group in our school is represented. That means not reporting on the same stories or people every issue. Starting my sophomore year, I made a list of everybody that had been interviewed by the staff. It is important that when people pick someone they are going to interview that the person is not on the list. That way, everyone has a chance to tell their story, and we don't get the same voices over and over again. I love reporting on sports, and I try to report every team fairly. This means not posting all football or basketball stories when there are countless other student athletes in our school. This year, the boys basketball team got quarantined during games we were going to live broadcast. I insisted that we continue to do the broadcast of the JV and varsity girls games despite the fact that they get significantly less views on average. This even meant traveling to a different school to do so. That is what it means to me to report on every team in the school fairly.