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List member here! Sorry to be late. Got distracted. Family, work, insurrection down south. First, honest conversations around nepotism, hiring, the lack of diversity across newsrooms, legacy media, who gets promoted and why, are vitally important. I also agree with Emma’s point. https://twitter.com/EmmaMci/status/1346518700980056066
First, I belong on this list. A family connection is why I got a summer gig picking up phones at the Star, in 2001, and of course factored in to why I got to stay. Two decades on I’m still unpacking what I did with that gift, among others, and the ways I fell short.
So what's my problem? Big disclaimer about people’s reputations aside, lumping together journalists at different ends of their careers, with vastly different and unexplored connections, really does imply quite a few things. And, like Emma noted, a few questions might have helped.
I also get a bit peeved when journalists make what I think are totally reasonable points about context on this cursed platform and are effectively told to sit down, or that they are running entirely off feelings.
So hello, @DavideMastracci. I haven't done a hard read but any errors I'll let you know. Anyways. Here's a thread of incredibly brave BIPOC journalists who shared what it is like to try and work and thrive in an industry that remains unbearably white. https://twitter.com/JoleneBanning/status/1330199319731974150?s=20
