The journalism business has always been behind other industries in almost everything. Whether it’s technology, marketing or diversity. When it comes to diversity, journalism is even worse than Hollywood.
Yes I said it.
For an industry that needs so many different voices, they do a terrible job of including everyone – women, people of colour, immigrants, religion, sexual orientation, and different languages.
In England, at the British Press Awards only 20 women will be recognized compared to 94 men – almost all of them are old and white.
Journalism should be inclusive of everyone, yet there are fewer voices in mainstream media/
The daily news is becoming irrelevant because we cannot pull together as a nation or as humans.
The world is as divided as it ever was and part of the reason is because our news doesn’t reflect that diversity. It does nothing to bring us together.
We need to change this if we’re ever going to get past the same problems that have plagued us for generations.
It’s not an easy task – not by a long shot as we try to find a workable business model while trying to add new opinions. The natural reaction is to hunker down and protect what we already have. Go into our shells and hope for the best but as Albert Einstein famously said, we cannot solve our problems using the same thinking that created them.
