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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. Itâs 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
@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
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
