DallasNews Corporation, the parent company of The Dallas Morning News, owns the media and marketing company Medium Giant, which is DEI-obsessed.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Dallas Morning News leaders are actively promoting DEI policies.
Leona Allen Ford is the chief talent and diversity officer for the DallasNews Corporation. The company website states she is “responsible for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the company. In April 2022, her role expanded to include Chief Talent and Diversity Officer for The Dallas Morning News and Medium Giant, the company’s marketing services agency. She’s responsible for all human resources functions for the company.”
Medium Giant’s website states the company is “committed to DEI.”
“Under the leadership of Leona Allen Ford, our Diversity, Equity + Inclusion (DE+I) Council comprises an inclusive set of representatives from across our companies: Medium Giant, The Dallas Morning News, Al Día, and Distribion. It’s intended to be a conduit and a feedback channel between employees and top leadership. In other words, the council’s job is to advocate on behalf of every employee and push our leaders toward progress,” the website states.
Medium Giant has an entire blog page dedicated to marketing strategies for promoting “diversity, equity, and inclusion in their workplace.”
“When George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020 and protesters took to the streets across the country, it sparked a long-needed movement to reexamine police brutality and systemic racism. Neither of these issues was new. What was new is how companies large and small took a hard look at their own policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), as well as their roles in promoting a more just society,” reads the blog.
Ford lists books and articles in the blog that are helpful for employees to learn DEI. She also mentions several DEI and LGBTQ recourses, such as the Racial Equity Resource Guide Glossary and the NLGJA stylebook on LGBTQ terminology.
The NLGJA stylebook on LGBTQ terminology urges people not to use phrases such as “dressed as” as it might assume a person’s gender. It also encourages people not to use “biological male” when referring to transgender women as it is “deemed an oversimplification.”
The Dallas Express contacted DMN publisher Grant Moise and Leona Allen Ford but did not receive a response.