Giving Compass' Take:

• Ms. magazine interviews New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society, about the importance of hiring more diverse voices in media and thinking beyond The Resistance.

• Are we supporting newsrooms who are advancing the principles of equity? Hannah-Jones explains how doing so will help forge a deeper connection to communities.

• Here's how philanthropists can make an impact in journalism.

Nikole Hannah-Jones has been called the “Beyoncé of Journalism,” but the New York Times reporter’s work is anything but pop culture.

Hannah-Jones is a co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society, which trains reporters of color in investigative journalism. In 2017, she was named a MacArthur fellow, winning a so-called “genius award” for her reporting on the segregation of black children in American schools, and she is on leave from the Times working on a book — The Problem We All Live With — which traces school inequality for black children from slavery to now.

Ms. talked to Hannah-Jones about power, her Twitter bonafides and why we can’t go back to brunch after we march.

What is the Ida B. Wells Society?

NHJ: It’s very hard for black journalists to become investigative reporters. We don’t get the assignments. We don’t get put on projects teams. A couple years ago the men who became my cofounders, we were sitting at a data/computer-assisted reporting convention, and we’re sitting in the lobby of the hotel, we’re in Atlanta, and we’re like, “we’re literally 98 percent of the black people at this conference.”

We had been hearing the same things from organizations and newsrooms for years that they were going to work on it, and diversity was important, but nothing was ever changing. So we decided that we would start an organization to try and change it ourselves. If you don’t have journalists of color in those positions, you are just missing way too many stories about the most vulnerable people.

Read the full interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones about hiring more reporters of color by Melissa Jones at Ms. Magazine.