Gannett Commits to Gender, Racial and Ethnic Parity by 2025
USA Today, as well as Gannett’s 260 local daily and several hundred weekly news organizations, will make public the number of its journalists who are female, Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), reports MediaPost.
“The company is “committing to achieving gender, racial and ethnic parity by 2025 and will report our progress annually,” according to a column from Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president of the USA Today Network and publisher of USA Today,” continued the MediaPost post, which adds that Gannett is committing to “make its workforce as diverse as the country by 2025.”
BIPOC make up 22% of the overall company. A little over 30% of USA Today’s newsroom staffers are BIPOC, up from 21% in 2017.
The nation is around 40% BIPOC, writes USA Today editor in chief Nicole Carroll in a column.
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