Tag Archives: diversity

Are there too many white men in the White House?

By zerlina | Published: January 10, 2013
TweetAfter The New York Times ran the above photo alongside the headline, “Obama’s Remade Inner Circle Has an All-Male Look, So Far,” the media jumped on the narrative that President Obama is surrounding himself with white guys to the dismay of the diverse coalition who elected him to office. While it’s certainly true his first [...]
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How does media get past their binders full of minorities?

By Amy S. Choi | Published: December 7, 2012
TweetI graduated from journalism school in 2001, right around when “New Media” became a thing to take in j-schools across the country. We learned how to use basic HTML! We wrote stories … for the WEB! The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University — sorry, the The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications [...]
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New York media power couples are almost all white and straight

By zerlina | Published: July 6, 2011
TweetThe New York Observer posted a slideshow of forty-eight New York media power couples (including our very own Jessica Valenti) but there were two very obvious omissions from the list. People of color and members of the LGBT community. On a list of 48 couples total, one couple was black and one was a same [...]
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WaPo’s Next Top Pundit contest finalists: Pale and male

By Chloe | Published: October 13, 2010
TweetYou might remember that last year, our own Courtney was a finalist in the Washington Post’s America’s Next Great Pundit contest. Well, the contest is back for a second round – yesterday, the paper revealed its list of fifty finalists, chosen from the 1400 short op-ed submissions it received. Out of fifty finalists, guess how [...]
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