Posted on 07/04/2020 1:51:49 PM PDT by edwinland
The editor of The Boston Globe plans to give reporters and other staff members “the necessary time to look back six months and assess their work through a racial lens,” according to a memo he sent the newspaper’s staff earlier this week.
Brian McGrory, the editor, wants reporters, columnists, editors, photographers, and video producers to count “how many people of color were subjects, how many were quoted as experts, how many were depicted in photographs and videos, and in what fashion?”
It’s not a witch hunt, he said.
“This exercise is not meant to embarrass or penalize anyone. It’s to learn from our own work and create awareness of what we need to do,” McGrory wrote in the memo. “We’ll figure out a meaningful way to share the broader results.”
The memo, which is dated Wednesday, July 1, was published Friday, July 3 by Northeastern University journalism professor and media blogger Dan Kennedy at WGBH.org.
The Globe plans to provide lists of sources of color to reporters and editors for news stories and other articles. McGrory said it is “of the utmost importance for everyone to include a diverse range of voices in stories and to develop sources who don’t look like you.”
Starting in 2021, McGrory said, the Globe will stop hiring summer interns who are white, and will instead “reframe” the program as “a diversity internship and training program in which all participants will be students or recent graduates of color.”
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McGrory, who grew up in Weymouth and took over as editor of the Globe in 2013, said the newspaper will examine “core racial issues of inequality,” calling Boston “one of the most unequal places on the planet.”
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Reminds me of around 1980 when I went first looking for a job after college. Most of the adds in my field for entry level people said, minorities only.
And that was 40 years ago.
And we are still doing this crap.
Mr. McGrory is a despicable racist, yes even if he's white.
And if any of those forbidden interns do wander into the newsroom, make sure they’re only using the water fountains they’re allowed to use.
Now, in addtion to Makers and Takers, we have Breakers.
The Breakers are NOT going to be sending YOU your checks.
“the necessary time to look back six months and assess their work through a racial lens,”
= = =
Look back at their asses through a racial lens.
Is that from the outside looking in,
or,
from the inside looking out?
It would take a LOT of money to pay me to live in Boston. It’s a shame, because at one time I loved it.
They can go #### themselves.
I’ve been SO GOOD with my posts in the new year but I just CRACK Sometimes.
They can go to heck darn it
i’m so SICK of everything being seen through race!
It’s the OPPOSITE of what MLK wanted.
Newspapers are dying this just accelerate the Boston Globes demise! Good riddance !
“But THAT’S DIFFERENT...” /s
I haven’t read the globe in over 20 years so i don’t know anything about this till now..
F...ing racist paper! May it’s editor GTH!
“how many people of color were subjects, how many were quoted as experts, how many were depicted in photographs and videos, and in what fashion?”
So, they want a newspaper for Zimbabwe?
This truly identifies what Diversity means.
I like sitting in the back: Planes, buses, limos, Deadwood, SD cardrooms, etc.
It’s much safer.
One wonders how they would treat someone who claims to be ‘trans-racial’, ie, a white person who believes they’re a person of color?
One wonders how they would treat someone who claims to be ‘trans-racial’, ie, a white person who believes they’re a person of color?
And keeps the type that like to ambush you in front of you in sight instead of sneaking up from behind.
As long as there's an easy exit in case the $hit hits the fan. I don't go out to eat very often, but when I do, I make sure I'm facing the front door so I can see who is coming and going through it.
“It’s not a witch hunt”
…said everyone who ever conducted a witch hunt.
Gee. If that isn't racist I don't know what is.
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