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The Los Angeles Times Newsroom is Roiling Over Race, Representation, and Missing “A Golden Opportunity” to Diversify

Author:
Scire, Sarah
Publication:
Nieman Lab
Year:
2020

It's been a week of reckoning at The Los Angeles Times.

On Monday, the newsroom's Black Caucus sent an open letter to owner Patrick Soon-Shiong that cited "racist treatment, marginalization and neglect in [the] newsroom over the last three decades." The next day, current and former Bla…