“This is something journalists need to think about. The issue of representation is not going away; it’s only going to get more ingrained, I hope. ”
“Folks were not happy about the way that we were approaching communities of color,” saysThe station had just completed a project where they embedded in a historically Black East Austin neighborhood — one that was previously segregated and now was becoming gentrified.
We did that for about a year. As you probably saw, we did quarterly updates along the way. And we saw ups and downs in the data from month to month. It shifted for a lot of our beat reporters — folks who have more time to carefully consider who they’re going to go to. The n Q: And the catalyst came within your own newsroom after you realized some of your reporting was problematic, so I imagine that helped.Definitely. It was borne out of conversations we were having within the newsroom. It wasn’t like our general managers said, “We need to do something about diversity!” Because I don’t think that works.
We encourage reporters to ask because you never know, and making assumptions can be really dangerous — or at least wrong. This is not public data in any way, so it’s not like someone would look back on the sheet and see that they’re misidentified, but it’s going to throw the data off if you’re wrong about that.
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