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Do you have a high-profile beat? Does your mgmt love to put you on panels etc? This is YOUR fight. Use your power. Ask for answers about diversity & not just in hiring but assignments & promotions. Use of social media to improve working conditions is NLRA protected activity 5/
Look at your internal style guides & guidance. Does it reflect a "view from nowhere" or is that view very much from a POV that reflects the demographics of mgmt? Challenge it. Find examples. Send emails. Go as high up as you need to go. 6/
Is your mgmt banning a word - let's say the use of 'racist' to describe an action or phrase but not a person - but using other words such as 'misogynist' or 'anti-Semitic' w/o the same hemming & hawing? Well, that is not a 'view from nowhere.' That is a POV. Call them on it. 7/
They won't always - or ever - listen to you. But maybe they will. And it doesn't mean the fight isn't worth taking on. It is worth creating discussion & discomfort because that is how people - and institutions - grow. 8/
Institutional racism in newsrooms is real. But it doesn't need to be. I've run out of thoughts for now but a reminder that this panel on fighting racism in your newsrooms is at 5pm PT and 8pm ET tonight: https://nahj.memberclicks.net/fight-racism
#solidarity 9/9
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