The State News fall 2020 diversity report
This year was rife with change, and The State News is changing with it.
For the first time in our 111-year history, we are publishing a semesterly diversity report to assess how we represent our student audience. Newsroom diversity is an age-old problem that has been analyzed for generations but without much progress.
It’s a difficult problem to tackle, partly because of implicit and explicit comfort zones people need to break, but also because the solution is never complete. There is always more and better work to do to provide representative storytelling.
This report serves as a model for each semester that follows, where State News editors break down data points about our staff and our reporting to guide how we expand our student reach.