As a leader in advocacy journalism, we recognize the legacies of colonization and slavery continue to actively harm our society every day. We aim to live our values through the commitments below. We will inevitably make mistakes along the way, and remain open to learning and improving our policies and practices.
Our Commitments #
Spotlight Resilience, Beauty, and Truth
FSTV is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, on lands originally stewarded by the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples. We honor this history by amplifying the voices of Indigenous communities—alongside Black, Brown, Asian, LGBTQ+, immigrant, and working-class people—whose stories are too often erased or silenced. We strive to spotlight not just injustice, but the beauty, ingenuity, and strength in how people survive, create, and build a better future
together.
Keep Learning
FSTV’s staff and hosts come from different backgrounds, but while we’re here together, we commit to ongoing learning about systemic racism, colonization, and other forms of oppression. We share as we are comfortable and listen to learn. We strive to receive feedback and new information with openness and to make space and time for personal growth.
Foster Connection
Our team is committed to fostering an organizational culture where every team member is valued, supported, and empowered to thrive. This is an ideal, and although we won’t always be perfect, we commit to always seeking a deeper understanding of each other, challenging biases, and addressing harmful behaviors transparently and constructively.
We also strive to create opportunities for viewers to connect with one another and grassroots movement organizations to expand and deepen the impact of the FSTV community.
Focus on Impact
We prioritize experience, skills, qualities, transparency, and equity in our hiring, promotions, and pay practices. We amplify movements for social and environmental justices by covering their events and broadcasting their messages and calls to action. We uplift storytellers by paying to license their content and distributing it to new audiences. We bring people together with common values to build power, and we connect viewers with opportunities to get closer to people with influence to make fundamental changes. We aim to do at least one project per year that serves our home in Denver, Colorado.
Put Money Back Into the Hands of the People
We aim to partner with vendors that are here in our local community and are either worker-owned and/or Black-, woman-, LGBTQ+, and/or Indigenous-led. Broadcast television and streaming is a consolidated industry, so there are some vendors that contribute to harmful systems who we must work with (at least for now) to serve our mission. As technology changes, we are always looking for ways to shift this dynamic.
