The Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will examine diversity in journalism at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place. The program is free and open to the public.

Participating in the roundtable conversation will be KUSA assistant news director Tim Ryan, Nic Garcia, a reporter for Chalkbeat Colorado and former associate publisher and editor for Out Front, and Colorado Public Radio arts director Chloe Veltman. The discussion will be moderated by Gil Asakawa of the Asian American Journalists Association and AAJA’s AARP social media fellow. Asakawa, a Colorado Pro Chapter board member, is also manager of student media at CU-Boulder.

The panelists will cover a wide range of topics that span diversity, from the representation of communities of color and LGBT people, to the promotion of more diverse staff within newsrooms.

Please join us for this discussion!