Turner Company

We are One Turner

We crave original voices that stand up, speak out, and push boundaries on and off the screen.

Turner at NABJ

Nearly 3,000 journalists flocked to New Orleans, LA where the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) held their 41st annual conference and career fair. During the weeklong event, Turner hosted a variety of activities, including a reception honoring NABJ 2017 Journalist of the Year and CNN political analyst, April Ryan, as well as a daylong workshop for promising broadcast reporters and producers.

That Full Frontal life w/ show writer Ashley Black

As a newly minted Emmy® award-winning writer and a bona fide comedic role model, Ashley gave us an inside scope on the life of a writer for Full Frontal.

Diversity is Our Business Imperative

"Hiring and growing a wide range of diverse voices and perspectives, in front of and behind the camera, is critical to our success as a global media company. If we want to truly and deeply connect with fans around the world, we need to be an authentic reflection of who they are."

-John Martin, Chairman and CEO, Turner

Turner Taking Action

Diversity and inclusion is the backbone of our fans-first strategy and our commitment to making Turner a great place to work. To become an authentic reflection of our audiences, we’re focusing on activities and initiatives like increasing our presence at industry events like South by Southwest (SXSW) and minority journalism conventions to grow our talent pipeline, and creating leading-edge development opportunities for our employees and leaders.

To help understand unconscious bias – one of diversity’s toughest challenges – we launched specialized training for employees around the globe. We believe identifying unconscious bias is a critical skill we can all use to choose different, to build deeper connections, and to gain a better understanding for one another’s perspectives and life experiences. Ultimately, we believe in building high performing teams that use their natural differences to enhance our inclusive culture.

Business Resource Groups

Our Business Resource Groups (BRGs) allow our employees opportunities to connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds.

These groups use their collective spirit to help propel our business by:

• Fostering professional development through networking and outreach opportunities
• Educating and promoting an inclusive environment
• Partnering in ways that will help connect fans to our brands in smarter, more authentic ways

Over 60 percent of our U.S. employees are involved in one or more of our nine BRGs which include Black Professionals at Turner, Turner Women, Next Gen (early career), Turner Uno, Turner Asia, TurnOut (LGBTQ), Turner Vets, Turner Disability Group and Turner Parents.

Partnerships

By working closely with our partners, we hope to promote stronger dialogue and diversity in the industry’s pipeline of emerging voices.