Your journalism can’t be complete if your newsroom doesn’t represent the community you’re covering. Recent protests over racial injustice have put the journalism industry’s lack of diversity under a microscope, but it’s not a new issue. In 1979, the American Society of News Editors (now the News Leaders Association) acknowledged that newspapers needed to do better in representing the populations they serve, and in 2018, the Columbia Journalism Review found that not much progress had been made since then.
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