America’s newsrooms are facing a reckoning as the Floyd protests have sparked internal debate about diversity, coverage and pay transparency
In an online town hall earlier this month, staffers at Bloomberg News expressed concerns that the news organization hadn’t been aggressive enough in its coverage of the protests stemming from George Floyd’s killing.
Top editors said covering such events wasn’t a strong suit for Bloomberg, whose core focus is business, according to a recording of portions of the meeting. They noted that the protests started in Minneapolis, a city where Bloomberg doesn’t have an office, and said customers that use Bloomberg’s terminals for news...
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