Native American, Indigenous and Asian journalists erupted at home, demanding a change in journalistic standards and practices, particularly in the English-language media .
"They want to tear the house down," a news executive from a large media group told us this week.
Because it is not just about minority journalists expressing themselves more or having more visibility in editorial offices that are not inclusive enough, but also about promoting activist and committed coverage against immorality. Some journalists and presenters no longer hesitate to "vent their guts on air" on radio or TV . Journalists are taking a knee on social media.
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Editorial managers are trying to understand, trying to student data fight against this temptation of commitment and change of ethical rules, even the risk of marginalization if positions are taken. But not everyone is on this line.
CBC/Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait, for example, has committed to ensuring that 50% of new recruits to the Canadian public broadcaster's editorial staff will now come from minorities.
“Instead of doing business as usual, journalists must set aside their long love affair with objectivity and learn to situate themselves in relation to their social history, their relationships, and their obligations. Journalists must recognize that what they think is fact is deeply connected to who they are and where they come from in both the broad and specific senses of the term.
"In addition, journalists must employ what we call systemic journalism, which covers events and issues not as single events, but as intersections of systems and societal structures that have a history. This means investigating stories that many have not learned and do not know," two emeritus professors of journalism in Canadawrite this week