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On Friday night, #JournalismSoWhite trended across the United States and Toronto. The hashtag, a spinoff of #OscarsSoWhite, takes aim at demographic uniformity in journalism. This is a much needed discussion, and one that I tried to add to with my November 2015 article, “The Unbearable Whiteness of Canadian Columnists.”

davidetest4There is more to come from the Ryerson Review of Journalism on the lack of diversity, of all sorts, in Canadian journalism. Until then, here are a few of the best tweets from #JournalismSoWhite.

 

https://twitter.com/AndrayDomise/status/690729358231769088

 

 

 

 

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About the author

Davide is the blog editor of the spring 2016 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. He also works as an associate editor for the Islamic Monthly. Davide's articles have appeared in numerous publications including Al Jazeera America, The Globe and Mail and the National Post.

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