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A number of public radio outlets and staffers have endorsed a new “vision” statement that calls for ending objectivity, paying reparations, and endorsing “statements of belief,” including “Climate change is real” and “Black Lives Matter” in a bid to create an “antiracist future.”
They signed on to a new “call to action” that demands public media atone for past racism and hire “black, indigenous and people of color,” or “BIPOC.”
The document published by “Current,” the publication for public media workers, declared, “White supremacist culture and anti-blackness shape the policies, norms, and standards of public radio.”
It added, “They determine whose opinions are valued, whose voices are heard, whose stories are told and taken seriously, who is promoted, and whose resume never gets a second glance. Historically, black on-air talent are told their dialect and speaking voices do not fit the public radio prototype. There i
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The rise of radical newsroom transparency
“Going forward, executives must be prepared to justify hiring and promotion decisions not only to staff but to the broader public.”
I think journalism is about to see the rise of radical transparency within newsrooms, driven by staff members.
The past few years have seen dozens of headline-grabbing scandals involving major news outlets. Not just the #MeToo investigations at NPR, APM, NBC News, The New Republic, CBS, PBS, The New York Times, WNYC, WBUR, and Tronc, but accusations of racial discrimination and harassment at many other organizations as well.
In my work on racial justice, I hear a similar sentiment from journalists all over the country: I’m not sure this will get fixed fast enough for me. If our major news organizations do succeed in becoming equitable and inclusive, it might take years, as so few have shown any appetite for the kind of radical change necessary.
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