Podcast: Jelani Cobb and Lydia Polgreen on race, politics, and the media

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ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker and guest editor of CJR’s issue on race, speaks with Lydia Polgreen, editor in chief of HuffPost, on racism in the press and why we aren’t doing a better job of diversifying newsrooms.

SHOW NOTES:

• Missing the Story, Jelani Cobb, CJR
• We Wish To Plead Our Own Cause, Alexandria Neason, CJR
• The First Choice, Rebecca Carroll, CJR
• Decades of Failure, Gabriel Arana, CJR

 

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Amanda Darrach is a contributor to CJR and a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews School of International Relations. Follow her on Twitter @thedarrach.