What Does "Objectivity" Mean To Journalists Of Color?

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🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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News stories of conflict involving people of color raise questions about the role of diversity in newsrooms. With the current election cycle drenched with racially charged rhetoric, how do journalists of color deal with the idea of "objectivity," when it can seem at odds with the work of telling hard truths? Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji talk with veteran political journalist Pilar Marrero whose reporting appears in the Spanish language newspaper La Opinion; and with Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter on policing issues for The Washington Post.

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0:19.7	I'm Shrine Marisol Maraji and I'm Jean Demby.
0:23.2	So Jean, a few weeks ago, like a lot of people, we were at our respective one bedroom apartment
0:27.3	to your NDC.
0:28.3	I was in LA.
0:29.3	We were watching Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention.
0:34.0	The number of new, illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year
0:40.0	already exceeds the entire total from 2015.
0:46.7	They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the
0:54.1	impact on public safety or resources.
0:58.0	Ensuring you tweeted during the speech quote, this speech is difficult to listen to as a
1:02.6	Latina and the Iranian so much fear mongering and then you deleted it.
1:07.3	Yeah, I tweeted that in a moment of weakness.
1:10.8	The tweets started getting hell-arrived tweets real fast and then a colleague who I love
1:15.3	in respect.
1:16.3	An MPR colleague actually who's also a POC texted me and was like, watch what you tweet.
1:22.2	You don't want to get in trouble if you need to say something text me instead.
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