newsroom diversity
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Kansas City Star Apologizes For Decades of Racially Biased Reporting
This year was marked by a movement towards racial reckoning in America, including a recognition of the historic injustices done towards Black people in this country via policing and also from a whole host of other institutions. Now another entity has stepped forward to acknowledge its role in perpetuating racial injustice. The Kansas City Star…
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Capitalizing the “B” in Black Is Nice, but Actually Hiring Black People in Your Newsroom Is Nicer
At The Root, we’ve had a long-standing debate over capitalizing the “B” in black. Some of us are adamantly for it, while others (myself included) are grammar freaks who think that if we capitalize “black” we would also have to capitalize “white,” and I, personally, have no interest in that as it would continue to…
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Obama Was More Aware of Racism Than We Saw
Aide: Like Jackie Robinson, Felt He Had to Take It Obama Is Busy Organizing and Writing A High for Diversity in Local TV Newsrooms Rethinking Urged on Funding for News Diversity J-Groups Seek Access to Migrant Detention Centers ‘What’s the El Salvadoran Congress Going to Do?’ NAHJ Investigating Misconduct Allegations Magazine Targets Blacks, Latinos Who…