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No More White Summer Interns, All Reporters To ‘Assess Their Work Through A Racial Lens,’ Boston Globe Editor Says
New Boston Post ^ | July 3, 2020 | Matt McDonald

Posted on 07/04/2020 1:51:49 PM PDT by edwinland

The editor of The Boston Globe plans to give reporters and other staff members “the necessary time to look back six months and assess their work through a racial lens,” according to a memo he sent the newspaper’s staff earlier this week.

Brian McGrory, the editor, wants reporters, columnists, editors, photographers, and video producers to count “how many people of color were subjects, how many were quoted as experts, how many were depicted in photographs and videos, and in what fashion?”

It’s not a witch hunt, he said.

“This exercise is not meant to embarrass or penalize anyone. It’s to learn from our own work and create awareness of what we need to do,” McGrory wrote in the memo. “We’ll figure out a meaningful way to share the broader results.”

The memo, which is dated Wednesday, July 1, was published Friday, July 3 by Northeastern University journalism professor and media blogger Dan Kennedy at WGBH.org.

The Globe plans to provide lists of sources of color to reporters and editors for news stories and other articles. McGrory said it is “of the utmost importance for everyone to include a diverse range of voices in stories and to develop sources who don’t look like you.”

Starting in 2021, McGrory said, the Globe will stop hiring summer interns who are white, and will instead “reframe” the program as “a diversity internship and training program in which all participants will be students or recent graduates of color.”

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McGrory, who grew up in Weymouth and took over as editor of the Globe in 2013, said the newspaper will examine “core racial issues of inequality,” calling Boston “one of the most unequal places on the planet.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newbostonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bostonglobe; bostonquota; fishwrap
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To: edwinland

“This exercise is not meant to embarrass or penalize anyone. It’s to learn from our own work and create awareness of what we need to do,” McGrory wrote in the memo. “We’ll figure out a meaningful way to share the broader results.”

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Time to renew the affirmative action programs beyond the level we’re already operating at, eh Comrade?


61 posted on 07/04/2020 2:46:54 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: JMS

My first thought as well


62 posted on 07/04/2020 2:47:58 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: edwinland

Boston is only about 25% black.

What happens to the Democrat Party if white Democrats, all over America, start to decide that Democrats, and the Left in general, being in power is going to be detrimental to the lives of themselves and their families?


63 posted on 07/04/2020 2:48:41 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: edwinland

How is this even legal? Can’t the EEOC step in?

}:-)4


64 posted on 07/04/2020 2:49:06 PM PDT by Moose4 (I am father to a teenager. My opinion is invalid.)
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To: edwinland

LOL. So all the senior staff at the BG and editors will be lilly white and all the incoming interns and consequently the hires are going to be “POC”.

That will work.


65 posted on 07/04/2020 2:49:54 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: yldstrk

The Left is going to need a bigger bubble.


66 posted on 07/04/2020 2:54:05 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: ClearCase_guy

Is it too late to vote for the white guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJqvC08CviE


67 posted on 07/04/2020 2:56:16 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: edwinland

The people who get the Globe barely know how to read. So it won’t matter if it’s in English or whatever the interns speak.


68 posted on 07/04/2020 2:58:12 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: beef

Affirmative action on steroids is what it is!


69 posted on 07/04/2020 2:59:11 PM PDT by cozy3
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To: edwinland

So that’s racist.


70 posted on 07/04/2020 3:05:34 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: edwinland

I keep hearing that European Americans have white privilege. Where is this mythical beast?


71 posted on 07/04/2020 3:06:01 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: edwinland

viewing thru a ‘racial lens’...

if black experts were referred to more then 12% of the time, they would be over represented.


72 posted on 07/04/2020 3:07:01 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: edwinland

It will get worse. Anything and everything unless whites stand up for themselves.


73 posted on 07/04/2020 3:16:05 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: KittyKares
I remember in the early seventies when my class of recent college grads was “accidentally” told by an HR staffer that none of us would get promoted until the black men and women were taken care of. So we all just took our white privilege and left for other endeavors. We all did quite well.
74 posted on 07/04/2020 3:16:27 PM PDT by GOWM (grumpy old white man)
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To: edwinland

It’s like Comrade Beria said, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” If you look through a “racial lens” you will find the crime.


75 posted on 07/04/2020 3:19:51 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: edwinland

In short, they will be racists.

JoMa


76 posted on 07/04/2020 3:25:50 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: GOWM

Amazing that this kind of thing is still going on decades later.


77 posted on 07/04/2020 3:25:57 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: edwinland

Should lose whatever special Constitutional privileges it currently enjoys.


78 posted on 07/04/2020 3:26:47 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: edwinland

To ‘Assess Their Work Through A Racist Lens,’ Boston Globe Editor Says
Fixed it by changing only two letters!


79 posted on 07/04/2020 3:28:49 PM PDT by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: edwinland

Well, I doubt he remembers a BG intern by the name of Jayson Blair.

And how well the BG help train him in the best journalistic practices...


80 posted on 07/04/2020 3:31:18 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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