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NEW: @latimes will hire a masthead editor for talent and culture, who will oversee recruitment, retention, training and career development, as well as our Metpro and internship programs.
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Our newsroom is 46% women, 38% POC and nearly 7% LGBTQ but we all know that we have a long way to go in terms of diversity, equity, access and inclusion. This new position is a major step, but far from the only one.
We have been listening with humility as our #BlackatLAT colleagues have described painful past experiences. This institution can do better. It must do better. Our executive editor @NPearlstine will be addressing next steps later today.
The #BlackatLAT action has drawn a lot of attention to the struggles faced by Black journalists in our newsroom. But I also want to highlight their work, which is inspiring to me as a journalist:
At random, I’ll start with this memorable 2017 story by former entertainment writer @TrevellAnderson, who dismembered the Hollywood trope that Black films don’t do well internationally. latimes.com/entertainment/…
What about this stirring 2019 piece by @AngelJennings about how a journey to his family’s homeland of Eritrea shaped the late Nipsey Hussle’s activism, a trip that “split his life into before and after.”
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If journalism is overwhelmingly white, then investigative journalism is blindingly white.
It wasn't until I joined the @latimes 3 mos ago that I reported to an investigative editor who isn't white. I've been working in jrn for nearly a decade.
It wasn't until I joined the @latimes 3 mos ago that I reported to an investigative editor who isn't white. I've been working in jrn for nearly a decade.
I got into jrn specifically to hold institutions accountable. It was always a bizarre experience sitting in IRE luncheons amid a sea of white pple honoring reporting that revealed systemic abuses w/o any acknowledgment that the makeup of that very room itself was a systemic issue
How can you entrust an industry to point out imbalances of power when it refuses to acknowledge those very same imbalances within itself? How can we as journalists wag our fingers at institutions that obstruct the truth when we have yet to truly reckon with how newsrooms operate?
