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Diversity’s Very Slow (But Steady) March
Diversity and inclusion within the media industry were moving ahead at a respectable clip. Then the pandemic happened. How should organizations get back on track with their hard-fought efforts?
By Mary Collins | April 1, 2021 | 5:29 a.m. ET.
Mary Collins
Just when you think you are making great strides toward an important issue, it seems something comes along to disrupt or possibly even dismantle it. The elephant in the room regarding diversity is COVID-19. Along with its many other ill effects, the pandemic has undermined even the most diligent diversity efforts among the publishing, television, radio and digital media sectors. Yet, the fight goes on. It’s a fight I expect media will ultimately win.
ABA s Model Diversity Survey can help with DEI strategies
Panelists speak at the ABA Techshow 2021 panel called “Harnessing and Maximizing Technology and Data to Drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession.”
While most lawyers are passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, they still struggle with actions and tangible outcomes in this space, Daniel Winterfeldt said during a Monday afternoon ABA Techshow panel called “Harnessing and Maximizing Technology and Data to Drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession.”
The good news is, there are existing solutions, such as the ABA’s 2020 Model Diversity Survey Report, that can help move the needle forward, added Winterfeldt, a partner in Reed Smith’s global capital markets practice in London and the founder of the InterLaw Diversity Forum.
The year journalism starts paying reparations
“Reparative journalism is explicit in its commitment to doing the work of racial justice, and by extension without apology social justice.”
This is not a prediction about 2021 as much as it is a call for what must come in the “after” we’ve all been waiting for some of us longer than others.
After 45. After the pandemic. After the uprisings.
Now that this consequential year has definitively denuded the unsustainability of American institutions as we know them, the work of reparations can begin. Specifically, the work of reparative journalism.
Reparative journalism1 is the term I use to describe a specific approach to newsmaking that centers structural vulnerability as its core value. It is the framework I envision for the news media to redeem itself by reconstructing our shared reality through radically inclusive editorial choices.