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Poll: What’s the Best Way to Promote Diversity in Media?

Are we living in a post-racial world? Not quite. In both the traditional media business and the booming new media and tech businesses, the norm remains white men in charge and setting the agenda. There were stark reminders of that all week. The huge Riptide report from the Shorenstein Center and Nieman Lab was a look back at how the news industry was disrupted by technology, with interviews of 61 people — 54 of whom were white males. That prompted a storm of criticism. Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson was forced out after his Twitter feed came to light from a Valleywag story, including the tweet: “Tech managers spend as much time worrying about how to hire talented female developers as they do worrying about how to hire a unicorn.” And at TechCrunch Disrupt, one of the largest tech conferences, some “brogrammers” thought it was funny to demo an app called TitStare. We know the problem is deep and embedded, but how do we change the ratio (as Rachel Sklar might say)? Vote in our poll and share your thoughts in the comments below. And check out a longer discussion on this week’s Mediatwits podcast.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • No "anti-racists" say a 100% Black area needs more diversity.

    No "anti-racists" say a 100% Asian area needs more diversity.

    No "anti-racists" say a 100% Muslim area needs more diversity.

    According to "anti-racists", they are already 100% diverse.

    They say ALL & ONLY White area need to be more diverse, and that White areas only stop needing to be more diverse when there are no White people left in them.

    Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White.

  • You forgot the best option of all,
    "Why is diversity only a problem in ALL White countries and ONLY White countries?"

  • Nobody is flooding Africa with millions of non-Africans and FORCE assimilating them.

    Nobody is flooding Asia with millions of non-Asians and FORCE assimilating them.

    This is happening in ALL White countries and ONLY White countries.

    It's GENOCIDE!

    Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White

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