Join the New England Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on August 31, at 3 p.m. as we talk with Soledad O’Brien about racism journalists of color experience in the news industry. On July 4 O’Brien published an op-ed in the New York Times detailing her experiences with racism after starting her first job as an on-air reporter was at KRON in San Francisco, where she worked from 1993 to 1996.
“I saw my new colleagues having a lively conversation and wanted to jump in,” O’Brien said. “I discovered that they were talking about the “affirmative-action hire,” who turned out to be me. That’s how they saw me — it didn’t matter that I’d been a researcher and producer at NBC News or that I had gone to Harvard.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/opinion/soledad-obrien-racism-journalism.html
Today journalists are speaking up about their experiences and demanding change. We will discuss the impact racism has had on newsrooms and the moment of reckoning news organizations are facing on discrimination.
This event is being moderated by Saraya Wintersmithof WGBH News.