{"id":1071,"date":"2022-01-31T13:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2022-01-31T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:52:04","slug":"new-network-calling-all-lgbtq-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/new-network-calling-all-lgbtq-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"New network: calling all LGBTQ+ journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">January 2022: A new LGBTQ+ network for journalists at all levels in the industry offers a platform for meeting and connecting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/lgbtqjournalismnetwork?utm_source=Society%20of%20Editors%20Members&amp;utm_campaign=49754caac9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_22_10_49_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8056757ee1-49754caac9-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LGBTQ+ Journalism Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, founded by Sophie Perry, a reporter at the Oxford Mail, aims to provide a supportive community and network for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and work in, or are studying, journalism in the UK. Perry founded the network as there was previously no single public group where LGBTQ+ journalists could meet and connect with each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe LGBTQ+ Journalism Network is open to students, entry-level journalists, senior editors and absolutely everyone in between,\u201d says Perry. \u201cI hope the group will be a positive place for people to share their success stories and big wins, job opportunities, and best practice for telling LGBTQ+ stories, as well as a space where people can advise and support each other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perry also hopes to run events for the group, including social meet-ups and panel discussions to further unite LGBTQ+ journalists across the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2022: A new LGBTQ+ network for journalists at all levels in the industry offers a platform for meeting and connecting.\u00a0 The LGBTQ+ Journalism Network, founded by Sophie Perry, a reporter at the Oxford Mail, aims to provide a supportive community and network for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and work in, or are studying, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societyofeditors.org\/inclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}