Journalism is a field so antediluvian it is patting itself on its back for opening up to women — white women. I invite any media organization that wants to challenge that assertion to share its racial diversity data. “The economic reality is the biggest current barrier to diversity,” says Toronto Star Editor, and my boss’s boss, Michael Cooke. Visible strides have been made in ticking of that one box for (white) women. “A lot of ambitious people start to look elsewhere,” says veteran journalist John Miller, who published the country’s last definitive research on media diversity — that was back in 2006.

Source: thestar November 04, 2016 16:05 UTC