This, by @jenn_swann, gets at a lot of what people have been thinking/saying about the @LAWeekly:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3xy8j/to-save-la-weekly-journalists-want-to-destroy-it …
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Three out of every four people in LA are people of color. There are tons of talented writers of color in this city. I never saw that represented on LA Weekly's masthead or bylines.
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Having a story about Watts or Boyle Heights written about people who might also be gentrifying those neighborhoods always seemed off to me.
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There was also the issue of who was highlighted and who was made invisible at the LA Weekly. This, from a couple of years ago:https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/596056820420124672 …
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I know people were trying. I get that. But trying is different than doing. All that said, I miss the LA Weekly. And it's hard to mourn for it when the site itself is still live (and posting kinda *really bad* writing).
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If you'd like a former staffer to address the issues of diversity and inclusion, I can do that for you. When I came in almost 2 years ago, we were in the middle of rebuilding. We'd gotten away from the roots of the city, and we were... well, very white.
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In the past 2 years staffers made efforts to get into the community and encourage people of color (specifically women) from every economic stature to contribute. The Arts & Culture editor & I conducted a free workshop aimed at getting women of color to pitch & I was planning more
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I can't speak for others, but I know I wanted to groom someone from the community to eventually take my job. I was the first in my family to go to college. We didn't read. That LA Weekly took a chance on me was a dream. Wanted to give that to someone else.
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There are MANY valid criticisms with the inclusion initiatives of that paper. The staff that was laid off was finally trying to address it. For us, it was taking more time than we would have liked. In a year, the bylines would have been entirely different though.
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That's cool, and I believe you — and I'm honest when I say I wish you'd had the opportunity to carry that through. I'm also tweeting what I know and what I've seen as woman of color who's a writer from LA.
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And I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm just, well, sad. That we don't get to have this conversation where I would be in a position to take any action to correct the situation. Your thoughts on the Boyle Heights story echo my own.
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