In 2001, before we had smartphones or even MySpace, I got to attend a taping ofFriends I spend a lot of time thinking about journalism’s diversity problem and the ways in which it impacts both employees and the communities we serve. I’ve thought about this even more than usual recently as the news industry and the media broadly, like so much of the United States, have begun a racial reckoning since George Floyd’s death in late May. It’s stayed planted at the front of my mind as Black and brown reporters from institutions such as theL.A. TimesthePittsburgh Post-GazetteThe New York TimesRemezcla Mariellen Jacobs, an advocate for bunk bed and rail safety, toldTeen Vogue Eventually, we grew tired of countless aggressions and isolation in the south and moved to an increasingly diverse area of the country, the northern part of Virginia.With the recent rise of nationalism,hate quickly spread