National Geographic was ahead of the curve.
While it took last summer’s uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd for many media outlets to address bias in their reporting and newsroom culture, the magazine announced its own racial reckoning in 2018. That year it dedicated its April issue to the topic of race, and Susan Goldberg the first woman to be the magazine’s editor-in-chief publicly acknowledged the publication’s long history of racism in its coverage of people of color in the US and abroad.
“Until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging them beyond laborers or domestic workers,” Goldberg wrote in an editor’s letter introducing the issue. “Meanwhile it pictured ‘natives’ elsewhere as exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages every type of cliché.”
The higher you go, the fewer Black professionals you see. At the senior manager and VP level, Black workers make up just 5% of the workforce, and at the SVP level, just 4%. At the very top, only around 1% of Fortune 500 CEO spots are held by Black leaders.
If the current trajectory continues, McKinsey & Company estimates that it could take 95 years before Black employees reach parity at all levels in the private sector. Black workers, on average, are not being hired, promoted or paid according to what would signal their level of productivity based on their experience or their education, Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute s program on race, ethnicity and the economy, tells CNBC Make It. And it absolutely impacts everything. It impacts your family s economic security.
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Former assistant Ryan Walker-Hartshorn will serve as a consultant.
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Bon Appétit’s problematic behind the scenes unraveling is the subject of a new HBO Max comedy series.
According to the
Enjoy Your Meal will satirically examine the toxic culture of the food media industry. The half-hour program will draw inspiration from the multiple media scandals of summer 2020 and today, focusing on a cohort of young assistants of color who rise up to tear their cookie cutter corporate culture apart.
Ryan Walker-Hartshorn, the former assistant to the publication’s editor-in-chief
Adam Rapoport and only Black woman on staff, will serve as a consultant for the series. Amy Aniobi, an Insecure writer and executive producer will write the script. She will also executive produce along with
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Adam Rapoport s former assistant Ryan Walker-Hartshorn will serve as a consultant on the half-hour development Enjoy Your Meal.
Bon Appétit s unraveling is getting the scripted treatment.
HBO Max is developing a new comedy series,
Enjoy Your Meal, that satirically examines the toxic culture of the food media industry. Per the logline, the half-hour show will draw inspiration from the multiple media scandals of summer 2020 and today, focusing on a cohort of young assistants of color who rise up to tear their cookie cutter corporate culture apart.