Several discussion groups charged that management s dedication to diverse hiring and coverage practices, like the Tennessee River that runs through Florence, ebbs and flows. Design exercises, programs, or field trips to educate the staff about communities. Likewise, reporters were challenged to go beyond different story angles, but to a different mindset. It s all just shades of the same thing. That kind of perspective is anti-diversity.
Coverage is too institutional and leader -driven.
They should stop using the same token members of any group race, gender, political leanings, religion, liberal, conservative, etc. as the groups only representatives. The exercise was a positive one. People were defensive and defiant, emotional and enlightened. It also generated real ideas and potential solutions.