Lacking diversity: The blight of Canadian journalism
By Karim Fall (LJI) The job of the journalist is to report on the world around us, delivering news and stories that as compelling as they are informative. Ironically enough, news and stories about Black journalists in Canada are rarely told. And a big reason why is because they are under-represented on screen, on air, but more importantly in newsrooms across the country. In the recently published Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) inaugural Canadian Newsroom Diversity Survey, it shows that 80% of newsrooms across Canada do not have Black or Indigenous journalists. Now that’s a story worth telling. One of …