Lori Lizarraga is the new co-host of NPR's Code Switch. Read her Westword essay that launched a major look at the treatment of Latinas in newsrooms.
It was during my second week as a new reporter in Denver that I remember first feeling concerned about discrimination in my newsroom.
Making decisions about communities of color without communities of color in the room is negligent. Making those decisions about our community while actively ignoring our input is the definition of oppression. It’s not just that the three of us were “not up to 9News standards.” It’s that the standard was a moving target that our contributions uniquely did not reach — for.
That’s what I thought I was hired to do at 9News two years ago. A white-owned, white-led newsroom in pursuit of more representation, I thought. I was proud to be chosen for that. Over better pay in larger markets, I accepted a job at KUSA in Denver with a bright-eyed eagerness to learn from those among the industry’s best.A few months in, I would “bring the newscast to a screeching halt” when I used eight seconds of a Spanish interview without a caption.
For two years, I lugged my diversity to 9News each day in the content of my journalism, wishing I could leave it at home without a clue as to when it became baggage. I was “too close” to the issues, too passionate, too emotional, too aggressive. Without empowered representation from all walks of life and status, everyone loses. The value of white representation at 9News is not in question. It’s the value of everyone else that seems to be.My experience is not an isolated one. I found the pattern among colleagues past and present, as well as in the community.
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