Bringing diversity to the newsroom is not the same as bringing diversity to the coverage
Submitted: August 24, 2009 - 5:36pm
Originally published: August 24, 2009
Last updated: August 24, 2009 - 5:37pm
Originally published: August 24, 2009
Last updated: August 24, 2009 - 5:37pm
Source:
Nieman Watchdog
Author:
Neil Reisner
[Commentary] Let's stipulate that newsrooms should resemble the communities they serve and that after at least three decades of effort, according to surveys by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, they don't. So, maybe it's time to change the subject. Maybe it's time to acknowledge that "one from Column A and two from column B" efforts to make newsrooms diverse are really just tokenism in drag and won't inherently change how we cover minority or ethnic communities. Maybe it's time to put as much effort into the latter as we do the former.
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