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Parental leave is broken, and that hurts all of us — www.poynter.org

The UK (where I live) has quite generous maternity leave. But there are still huge chunks of this that ring uncomfortably true.

"Why do we still structure our newsrooms like everyone has a wife at home?" writer Alex Sujong Laughlin asks. "I’ve always imagined a clock ticking backwards from the date of my first pregnancy indicating the amount of time I have left to make something of myself. Of course, this is ridiculous. But talking to working parents in journalism, it only feels realistic."

The pandemic has only exacerbated these trends. A report earlier this week - summarised here by the Drum - highlights how it is mothers who are most likely to have lost, or had to leave their job since March 2020. Those that remain employed are shouldering a heavier burden of day-to-day tasks.

If you need a reminder of what this is costing the industry in terms of talent, our interview with Terri White about the conflict between parenting and the 'best job in the world' is worth a read / listen.

How Harvard Business Review harnessed LinkedIn to become its most powerful social media channel — whatsnewinpublishing.com

Harvard Business Review has 13M followers on LinkedIn, built up through the sharing of up-to-date news as well as the careful curation of archived content. Such has been the success of HBR’s LinkedIn outreach, it has launched its own TV channel on the platform. It's a publication made to do well on a business-focused social media network, but there are still some interesting lessons here for everyone else.

Introducing a new DE&I series: Driving change from the inside — digitalcontentnext.org

This is a great initiative from Digital Content Next and Curiosity Lab founder Michael Tennant. He interviews some of the leaders on the front lines of the diversity, equity and inclusion movement, exploring how they are leading the charge for change. The first in the series talking to Edward Gonzales, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lead for Heliophysics at NASA is live now.

Hybrid working and improving diversity remain twin challenges for publishers — reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

The Reuters Institute has released a new report looking at how the newsroom is changing, with respondents saying companies are now mostly on board with the shift to hybrid working. However, although most feel that their news organisation is doing a good job with the gender balance, fewer say the same about ethnic diversity or attracting those from less advantaged backgrounds.

This week's podcast:

Global Director of Internews’ Earth Journalism Network James Fahn on why everyone should be a climate change journalist — voices.media

This week’s interview is with James Fahn, Global Director of Internews’ Environmental Programs and its Earth Journalism Network. James spoke with us as he sets out with a group of journalists from the global south to cover COP26 from their own perspectives.

The Great Privacy Reset: Insider, Future and Permutive on the opportunities for publishers — voices.media

In this new Conversations episode, we hear from Jana Meron, Senior VP of Programmatic and Data Strategy at Insider Inc, Nicholas Flood, Future plc’s Global Ad Product and Revenue Operations Director, and Joe Root, Founder of Permutive. They talk about where advertising issues arose from, some of the challenges they face implementing the changes, and how we can all work towards a sustainable advertising ecosystem.