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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?
