The Boston Globe has an op-ed piece about dying print and what that means for reporting ethnic media. What I was surprised about were the dismal figures in ethnic reporting throughout mainstream outlets.
More than 42 percent of print newsrooms across the country employ no black, Asian American, Latino, or American Indian journalists at all. According to even the most generous analyses, they consult white sources at least two-thirds of the time.
Via Racialicious.
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no surprise there. even in toronto, the self-proclaimed capital of multiculturalism, my newsroom is basically entirely white except for me and one other editor, and the experience wasn’t much more varied in journalism school, which is supposedly full of a “new breed” of journalists. i think in my class of ~200, there wasn’t a single first nations student. handful of brown kids, handful of asians, but otherwise entirely comprised of small town white kids who never shook their pollyannish naivite.