Thanks so much for the question.
This year and in years past, we have heard Black journalists share the stories of what they have experienced in the newsroom. Within the context of our work at the CABJ, we have been hearing from Black journalists whose stories were either buried, ignored or even, in come cases, denied.
Was there a mechanism by which they could file complaints? In some cases there was and in some cases there wasn't, but at the end of the day, the complaints didn't amount to change. Any concerns that surfaced, based on what we are hearing from Black journalists, did not amount to the kind of change that they wanted to see, which was a decrease in the kind of racism that they were encountering in their newsrooms or within the media companies that they worked for.
I will acknowledge that since June and the conversations we have been having with media companies, we have started to see the beginnings of change. I would say that there is a still quite a long way to go.