media

When you think of the appearance of a newspaper editor, what type of person comes to mind? This is the question Lauren Gustus, former executive editor at the Coloradoan, once asked a room full of potential future journalists during a 2016 panel on diversity in media. The answer most gave? They pictured an older, white male — and they’d be correct. As of November 2018, 77 percent of newsroom employees were white.

When former Paypal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created YouTube in 2005, they couldn’t have possibly known the video powerhouse that YouTube would become. Today, YouTube has mounted to a huge societal component of how we communicate […]