This never stops feeling like a punch in the heart and the gut. Even in the most racially diverse spaces in this country, newsrooms are still 70-90% white. The bosses are nearly all white. The perspective is nearly all white. It’s straight up dull & shameful. https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1207032525417267201

You know what the worst part is? All the unbelievable POC talent out there that so much of the industry misses out on, day in, day out. This is a choice those in power make, passively or deliberately, to not create space & it comes at the highest price to communities of color

Newsroom Leadership 2018 reports:
@nytimes 78% white
@washingtonpost 77% white
@WSJ 84% white
@latimes 64% white
@BostonGlobe 87% white
@chicagotribune 87% white
@USATODAY 85% white
@HoustonChron 89% white
@dallasnews 77% white
@azcentral 89% white

Source: ASNE/NYTIMES

There's consequences to speaking up about the staggering lack of diversity, crummy diversity coverage in newsrooms. We pay w/ our limited time, & w/ our sanity because things so rarely change. The louder we are, the more we risk losing our precious spot at this white-owned table

This part always feels particularly twisted:

Often, when journalists of color attempt to cover POC communities, they're told not too pigeonhole themselves OR that they're too biased to do so.

Because newsrooms that are 70-100% led by white folks are totally objective