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Political Party with Keli Goff: The Color of Campaign Coverage
The American electorate may be more varied than ever, but racial and gender diversity at the country's newspapers has not changed for more than a decade.
In this episode of "Political Party", Keli Goff and her guests hold up a mirror to the media, talking about “the pipeline problem,” “white affirmative action,” “presence versus power” and all the ways that the lack of racial, class, and gender diversity among the decision makers in American newsrooms can affect what we hear about our political candidates and the issues they discuss.
Goff talks with Jake Horowitz, editor-at-large and co-founder of Mic, Carol Jenkins, founding president of the Women's Media Center, Kevin Merida, editor-in-chief of ESPN's "The Undefeated" and former managing editor of The Washington Post, Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, and Jose Antonio Vargas, journalist and founder of Define American and #EmergingUS.
Watch the full video of the live conversation, recorded with a live audience in The Greene Space, WNYC’s street-level broadcast studio in Soho, on May 23: