Rolling Stone cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative showing that women are underrepresented in leadership positions in the music industry.
Vulture cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the lack of representation for Muslim and Middle East/North African characters in top films.
Variety reported that the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative would receive an organizational award from Women In Animation for "its longtime research efforts into representation, characterization and inclusion in the entertainment industry."
Protocol spoke with Mike Ananny about transparency at tech firms. "It needs to be meaningful transparency," he said. "It can't just be transparency as theater or as performance."
Marlon Twyman II appeared as an expert guest and provided opinions on what the working environment will be like in an era where we need to co-exist with COVID-19.
In a profile of new Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr., the Associated Press cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative showing low percentages of women as music producers and engineers.
In a profile of actress Rita Moreno, Elle cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative into the low number of Latinos in producer roles for top Hollywood films.
Undark quoted Kate Crawford in an article about the many problems with the huge data sets required by artificial intelligence. “It really goes to the core of what supervised machine learning thinks it’s doing," she said.
The Dallas Morning News quoted Marc Ambinder on AT&T's agreement to carry the One America News Network, which Ambinder called "a reflection of AT&T's realization that right-wing eyeballs mean big money."
NBC News cited the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's study of diversity and inclusion at Netflix, which found that "a mere 4.5 percent of main cast and crew members in Netflix U.S. series and films in 2018 and 2019 were Latino."
The Associated Press quoted Robert Hernandez on efforts to increase diversity in newsrooms. “There is no pipeline problem,” he said. “We are producing diverse students. The reality is they’re not being hired, they’re not being retained, they’re not being promoted.”
In an article about how racism in the music industry extends to touring production teams, Mic cited research by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative noting that the two largest concert promoters have no senior Black executives.