Sunday, November 28, 2004
A Courageous Decision
News & Record Editor John Robinson addresses workplace diversity at the N&R today in his weekly column. He acknowledges that minorities are underrepresented at the newspaper when compared to the local community. To address this problem, one third of new hires at the N&R will be persons of color.
Issues of race, particularly as they affect hiring practices, are almost always touchy. It takes honest self awareness as a manager to recognize the need to change hiring practice. It takes guts to write about it publicly.
Some will feel that this hiring practice amounts to a quota system. I say this is an honest effort to improve the newspaper's ability to report on, and therefore reflect, the community is serves.
Bravo to John and the News & Record for making a courageous decision to improve its product!
Issues of race, particularly as they affect hiring practices, are almost always touchy. It takes honest self awareness as a manager to recognize the need to change hiring practice. It takes guts to write about it publicly.
Some will feel that this hiring practice amounts to a quota system. I say this is an honest effort to improve the newspaper's ability to report on, and therefore reflect, the community is serves.
Bravo to John and the News & Record for making a courageous decision to improve its product!
