{"id":59868,"date":"2020-07-05T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59868"},"modified":"2020-07-05T20:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:15:53","slug":"soledad-obrien-a-metoo-moment-for-journalists-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59868","title":{"rendered":"Soledad O\u2019Brien: A MeToo Moment for Journalists of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soledad O\u2019Brien: A MeToo Moment for Journalists of Color<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2020-07-04<\/p>\n

Soledad O\u2019Brien<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSoledad O\u2019Brien<\/a> Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

We\u2019re finally feeling empowered to speak openly about racism in the newsroom.<\/em><\/p>\n

Every journalist of color has a story.<\/p>\n

My first job as an on-air reporter was at KRON in San Francisco<\/a> from 1993 to 1996. I saw my new colleagues having a lively conversation and wanted to jump in. I discovered that they were talking about the \u201caffirmative-action hire,\u201d who turned out to be me. That\u2019s how they saw me \u2014 it didn\u2019t matter that I\u2019d been a researcher and producer at NBC News or that I had gone to Harvard.<\/p>\n

At that same job, the managers half-joked that they had taken their lives into their own hands when their morning commute was rerouted through Oakland<\/a>. I was the bureau chief for the East Bay<\/a>, which includes Oakland, and they would be signing off on my reports hours later.<\/p>\n

So, as other journalists of color in these recent weeks have spoken up about their lack of representation and influence in newsrooms, and how that warps coverage, I know exactly what they\u2019re talking about: how treatment leads to unfair coverage. What\u2019s most disturbing, though, is how much their stories, in 2020, sound like mine from several decades ago…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re finally feeling empowered to speak openly about racism in the newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[2640,5470,2327],"class_list":["post-59868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-soledad-obrien","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59871,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59868\/revisions\/59871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}