This is the fourth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”
In recent years, an unprecedented number of women of color have risen to executive and shot-calling positions in news media in the United States — but their representation is still far below their proportion of the population.
You became a story editor fairly early in your career and, from there, got on the management track. Was that on purpose? Strategic? The way people get news is constantly changing. That presents a challenge, but also an opportunity. One of the skills that you really need as a journalist is being comfortable with constant change.
When we’re recruiting, we have to think in terms of the big picture, of the skills that you really, really need journalists to have already and the skills that are teachable to newcomers to the craft. I think that opens up the pool a lot more.I came to the industry as a kind of outsider. I went to community college. I’m the first journalist in my family. But I found my way and learned how things work. That’s great. But it’s actually not what I want for people.
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