The Society of Professional Journalists’ Rainbow Sourcebook makes it easy to broaden sourcing beyond the narrow demographic band usually found in the news. Search this database by common news topics to find qualified experts contributed by fellow journalists.

To search, check one or more of the topic boxes, then click ‘search.’ You also can search by other criteria, such as languages spoken, listed below. The sources here are national experts recommended by other journalists. You can also use them to work back to local sources.

Follow this link to get started.

Rainbow Diversity Sourcebook mobile app
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Check out SPJ's Diversity Committee Blog. Latest entries:

– SPJ Diversity pleased with AP decision on “illegal immigrant” term usage
– Using More Women As Sources
– The New Face Of SPJ
– The 2012 SPJ Diversity Leadership Fellows
– Native Americans are People, Not Animals or Objects
– UNITY 12 audience says online news must add color, offers structural remedies
– A Look at Unity 2012 in Las Vegas
– NBC Shows Diversity Tactic in NBC Latino Launch, Hispanic Brigade
– Entertainment Weekly Deserves Applause for “Coming Out” Report
– Anderson Cooper Admits He’s Gay: Was That Important?

Struggling to find ways to incorporate diversity across the journalism curriculum? Use "Get to the Source: A Teaching Plan" as a model for assignments and classroom exercises in diverse source development. Instructors may use the Rainbow Sourcebook to help journalism students sharpen their analytical skills and learn about source credibility, authority, perspective, and other related issues.

Browse this expanding collection of resources, presented by SPJ's Diversity Committee. Articles include how to cover poverty, how to turn unfamiliar territory into common ground, and what diversity really means to a working journalist.

Latest Edition: Immigration reporting: How to advance it and make it original

SPJ's Diversity Toolbox offers essays and links to resources that will help you broaden the perspectives and voices in your work. Journalists who want to improve their reporting will find valuable help throughout these areas of the site.

SPJ's Diversity committee compiled this report so that chapters can get a sense of what others are doing and borrow ideas. Most accomplished some interesting diversity work; many partnered with other organizations.

The Society of Professional Journalists passed a resolution urging members and fellow journalists to take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to redouble their commitment to use language that is informative and not inflammatory, portray other cultures and religions fairly and seek truth through a variety of voices and perspectives.