Dahleen Glanton: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is correct: Newsrooms need more diversity
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shocked the nation last Wednesday when she announced that she would only grant one-on-one interviews regarding the second anniversary of her inauguration to journalists of color.
We have never heard a politician make such a pronouncement out loud. But believe me, as an African American who has been working in the newspaper industry for more than 40 years, such decisions are made routinely in favor of white journalists. Public officials just do it quietly without saying a word.
It’s a dirty little secret within our industry that African American journalists don’t normally get the plum assignments. We aren’t regularly assigned to political campaigns. We generally don’t
