Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings

Black Journalists Vanishing as Newsrooms Stay Overwhelmingly White

Karen Attiah, The Washington Post's only Black female opinion writer, was fired after more than a decade at the paper for posts she wrote on social media addressing violence and the dangers of white extremism, raising concerns about the lack of Black voices in the media. The post Black Journalists Vanishing as Newsrooms Stay Overwhelmingly White appeared first on The Washington Informer.

Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when it dares to speak of the nation’s truths. Attiah, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was terminated after more than a decade at the paper for posts she wrote on social media addressing violence and the dangers of white extremism.