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Keith Woods

NPR's Chief Diversity Officer

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Keith Woods Biography

Keith Woods is the Chief Diversity Officer at NPR. He leads and supports NPR's efforts to bring greater diversity to its audience, content and staffing while creating a workplace where a diverse staff can grow and thrive. He is a resource across the organization for leadership and staff working on diversity efforts, as well as for public radio leaders from more than 260 Member stations across the country. Woods also heads up the Editorial Training team, which helps strengthen and support the work of journalists by training them in leadership, storytelling, reporting, editing, diversity, audio production, and digital strategy.

He came to NPR in 2010 to lead the organization's corporate diversity strategy and has worked with the newsroom on a multi-year effort to increase the diversity of sources. He has trained the staff of more than 30 public media stations from Canton, N.Y., to Juneau, Alaska.

Before joining NPR, Woods was Dean of Faculty of The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla. There, he led a dynamic faculty and taught for 15 years in seminars on race relations, diversity, ethics, reporting, and personal essay writing. He is co-author of "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity."

Woods has worked to help professionals, faculty, and students better understand and handle matters of diversity through workshops at dozens of journalism schools, radio stations, newspapers, and television stations across the country. While at Poynter, he chaired two Pulitzer Prize juries.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/15/2024.

Keith Woods Videos

  • Ethics in Journalism Institute Keynote
    Ethics in Journalism Institute Keynote
    Keith Woods, NPR Vice President for Diversity in News and Operations, delivers the 62nd Ethics in Journalism Institute Keynote address titled,...
  • Keith Woods - Three Questions that Will Up Your Diversity Game
    Keith Woods - Three Questions that Will Up Your Diversity Game
    When covering issues of race and difference in a story, Keith Woods, vice president for diversity in news and operations at NPR, outlines the three...
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