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CSG in the News

• "A One-Stop-Shop of Mental Health Resources for Journalists" | Journalism.co.uk
• "Five Years Later, the AP Still Inconsistently Describes George Floyd’s Murder" (May 27, 2025) | The Objective
• "Words Have Power": Author and Editor Karen Yin Discusses Importance of Inclusive Language in New Book "The Conscious Style Guide" | Center for Journalism Ethics (May 1, 2025)
• What to Look for in a Sensitivity Reader | Reynolds Journalism Institute (February 1, 2024)
• Q&A: Karen Yin | The Objective (February 3, 2023)
• Can We Save Endangered Languages? Can We Save Endangered Languages? | What Happens Next? (October 28, 2022)
• "Cakewalk," "No Can Do," and Other Harmful Language We Must Stop Using | NBCU Academy, October 6, 2022
• Language Around Mental Health—Like Gender, Race and Sexuality—Needs Reconsideration | Poynter, June 24, 2021
• AAJA Commends The New York Times’ Decision to Drop the Hyphen in "Asian American" | Asian American Journalists Association, June 2021
• Words Matter: Copyediting as a Process for (or Against) Social Change | Poets & Writers, May/June 2021
• Writing Like You’re Woke: There’s a Guide for That | ForbesWomen, October 2020
• Diversity and Inclusion—A Conversation With Conscious Style Guide Creator Karen Yin | Association Media & Publishing, July 2020
• Episode 9: Karen Yin | That Word Chat, June 2020
• "Unarmed Black Man" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means | NPR, May 2020
• How to Use & Promote Inclusive Language at Your Organization | Hubspot, January 2020
• How to Do Diverse and Inclusive Content Marketing That Matters | Content Marketing Institute, January 2020
• 15 Ways To Make Your Ad Campaigns More Authentically Diverse | Forbes, August 2019
• More Than Words: How Journalists Can Reassess Their Unconscious Biases | Journalism.co.uk, May 2019
• Conscious Style Guide: The Case for Capitalizing Black and White In Context of Racial Identity | Conscious Company Media, April 2019
• Changing the Conversation, One Word at a Time: How Professional Organizations Are Pushing for Changes in the AP Stylebook—and Beyond | Center for Journalism Ethics, March 2019
• The Top 10 Tools for Journalism in 2018 (and 10 Other Things to Bookmark) | Poynter, December 2018
• Edit Like a Boss: Cool Tools Help You Master the Trade | Quill (Society of Professional Journalists), December 2018
• Google’s New Dataset Search Is a Game-Changer, Plus 10 Tools for Investigative Journalism | Poynter, September 2018
• Because Words Matter: Feminist Editors Share How They Make Their Style Guides Less Oppressive | Everyday Feminism, June 2018
• We’ve Updated Our Guidelines on Race and Ethnicity to Better Reflect Our Philosophy of Inclusivity: No More Hyphens to Denote Dual Heritage | BuzzFeed Style Guide, March 2018
• Hidden Bias in Language | Tracking Changes, fall 2017
• The Impact of Words Is Felt Beyond eLearning | Learning Solutions, September 2017
• Conscious Style Guide Founder Karen Yin Wins Robinson Prize | ACES: The Society for Editing, March 2017
• Why We Should Examine Our Culinary Vocabulary | Lucky Peach, February 2017; republished on Conscious Style Guide, March 29, 2018
• The Conscious Style Guide: How to Talk About People With Inclusive and Tactful Language | The Zapier Blog, October 2016
• 18F Style Guide Pushes Clear, Accessible Writing for Web | Federal Times, July 2015
• Conscious Style Guide Highlights Inclusive Language | Copyediting, March 2015
• Creating a “Conscious Style Guide” | Tracking Changes, spring 2015