this is literally why your newsroom is so white

Uhhhumm, if you make hiring decisions for a newsroom and you’re like ?? where are all the POC to hire / why do they keep leaving moi????, please affix yourself to this thread from Jenny G. Zhang, Slate’s audience engagement editor, and read.

Zhang’s thread is a response to Columbia Journalism Review’s fall special report on (the lack of) diversity in newsrooms, but Zhang takes it a step further by inviting people of color to DM her why they left big name outlets — and then tweeting their responses out anonymously.

Some horrifying standouts:

There’s plenty more — read ‘em and weep/scream.

Like Deez Links? Forward to everyone in charge of hiring.