'It is vital to ensure that black news professionals have leadership roles.' Black journalists voice concern over the US media's coverage of the George Floyd protests
For Black journalists, covering the ongoing protests has been particularly challenging. Take the recent case of CNN’s Omar Jimenez. The well-known Black TV anchor was arrested on a live telecast while covering the protests in Minneapolis. The police did not pick his white peers who were reporting nearby, a move that revealed the inherent bias they have towards people of colour.
Black journalists, such as Justin Phillips of the San Francisco Chronicle, have written about how they are treated suspiciously by the police while they have been covering Floyd’s killing and its consequences. “Maybe with more black reporters, there could be some much-needed action taken against calling a group of Black Lives Matter protesters 'rioters,' or the overuse of “looters”,” heThe president of the National Association of Black Journalists, Dorothy Tucker, has called for making the newsrooms more diverse.
“It is situations like this that should remind news companies and organizations of how vital it is to ensure their newsrooms are diverse and that black news professionals have leadership roles,” Tucker
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