With President-Elect Barack Obama's Inauguration ceremony just a few days away, I thought I'd share what I consider to be a blog-worthy digital media note.
Along with UNITY, a national cohort of journalists of color, new kid on the Web theloop21.com is surveying journalists of color across the nation about how they feel mainstream media covered racial issues in the recent presidential election.
The two entities are planning a media blitz some time soon.
"If we get to work it out the way we want to it'll be juicy," said theloop21.com publisher Darrell L. Williams.
Williams and staff launched theloop21.com earlier this year with the aim of contextualizing economical, educational and political issues in the news for ordinary working folks --- especially black Americans.
I visit theloop21.com often, and am a semi-frequent contributor. So, yes, maybe I'm a bit biased in saying what I'm about to say, but theloop21.com is doing what mainstream media doesn't, or maybe what it "can't" or just "won't": bringing working people news they can use to empower themselves.
In these tough economic times, every little bit of information and analysis involving real life issues helps.
And excuse this shaky transition, but due to these tough economic times, as we all know, newsrooms and organizations are cutting back on staff and in the process, newsroom diversity is taking one hell of a hit...which I guess leads me back to theloop21.com and UNITY survey.
If you ask me, more diversity (race, age, gender, background, etc.) in the newsroom makes for better coverage, a better product. Anyhoo, here's a great column about the topic by The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz.
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