About MVJ

OUR MISSION

Military Veterans in Journalism’s mission is simple: get more military veterans working in America’s newsrooms.

The United States has been at war for more than 18 years at a cost of more than 7,000 lives, about 50,000 wounded and billions in tax dollars. Yet military veterans are vastly underrepresented in our nation’s newsrooms.

While about 7 percent of Americans have served in the armed forces, only 2 percent of media workers are military veterans, according to U.S. Census data.

Veterans bring perspective, nuanced understanding and on-the-ground experience about the military and veteran affairs that ultimately benefits newsrooms and news consumers.

MVJ member (pictured: facing right side on to the camera, looking toward the ground; a brown-skinned male with short, curly black hair, black-framed glasses and a cropped goatee, wearing a denim blue collared shirt and a gray tie and carrying a backpack) at CBS's filming studio in New York City.
Patrick Martin, video journalist, walking MVJ members through a tour of the NBCUniversal recording studios. He is a white male with short, dark brown hair and a short beard, wearing a white collared shirt with rolled sleeves and his arms in motion.

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