ABSTRACT
With the ethics of care firmly in mind, journalists need to organize and operate differently to obtain the intended results—not just tell stories about societal problems that beggar democracy, but arousing public opinion to the point that elected officials and business leaders feel constrained to act, and act effectively, to ameliorate climate change, racial inequity and economic disparity. A commentary in trade publication Editor & Publisher by Evelyn Mateos focused on newsroom leadership, declaring “people of color make up only 18.8 percent of newsroom managers at both print/digital and online-only publications. Chicago newsrooms can hardly reflect all this diversity, but race, which cuts across all these characteristics, is a vital starter.
