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Publishers are gradually releasing their latest reports on workforce diversity. Companies such as Condé Nast, Hearst, The New York Times, Vice Media Group, and Vox Media saw their workforce composition increase year-on-year. are diversifying, new jobs are still predominantly white.
The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 also drew attention to the serious issue of diversity in the media industry, with journalists and readers calling on publishers to diversify their organizations. Media companies hire executives focused on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Initiatives (DE&I) to better reflect the diversity of the communities they serve as media in their workforces. I set some goals.
See Digiday’s tracking of data from the recently released employee diversity report here. However, while Gannett released its latest staff diversity statistics, it did not disclose the diversity of its new hires.
Hearst increased its hiring rate for “people with diverse backgrounds” by 2 percentage points year over year, but the majority of new hires were still white. Four other publishers also saw a higher percentage of white hires in 2022 than in the previous year. And most of the recent recruits were white.
Diversity of new hires is declining
At Condé Nast, 39% of new U.S. hires in 2022 will be people of color, down from 41% the year before. Among new hires, 49% were self-identified as white, up from 45% in 2021. 12% are said to be “undeclared.” By 2020, Condé Nast has set a goal of selecting 50% of its hiring candidates from “a wide range of backgrounds and schools.” 75% of new hires in the US are women, up 4 percentage points from 2021.
New hires at Hearst will be 59% white in 2022, down from 61% in 2021. The ratio of female hires is declining, with 48% of new hires being women, down from 51% a year earlier.
The New York Times found that 44% of its new hires last year were people of color, down 10 percentage points from 2021. 56% were female, 43% were male, and 1% were nonbinary. In 2021, 62% of new hires were women.
The company said in a report that it had already achieved its goal of “increasing Black representation in leadership positions by 50% by 2025,” and that “The Times will push this progress even further, promoting Latinos (whose roots are in Latin American countries).” We plan to achieve this leadership goal for employers of people with disabilities.” A Times report found that 7% of leadership in 2022 will be black, up 1 percentage point from the previous year. The Hispanic/Latino leadership ratio remained unchanged from the previous year at 5%.
New hires at Vice Media Group (VMG) will be 54% white in 2022, up from 47% in 2021. Women made up the majority of VMG’s new hires in North America last year, down 1 percentage point year-over-year to 65%. In the past year, 44% of new hires at the company self-identified as people of color, down from 50% in the previous report.
Aggressive for overall improvement
Gannett, Hearst, VMG, and Vox all improved their workforce diversity by one point compared to their last report. Condé Nast saw a 2 percentage point drop in the percentage of white employees, while the New York Times saw a 4 point drop.
At Gannett, as of January 1, 2023, 71% of employees were self-reported white. “We are a leader in inclusion and are proactive in our work around diversity in our workforce,” LaToya Johnson, senior director of inclusion strategy at the company, said in an email.
“By better understanding our workforce and building inclusivity into all aspects of our business, we are strengthening our culture of belonging,” a Gannett spokesperson said. “Diversity is a top priority. We would like to highlight that our efforts to attract and retain talent have shown improvement,” it added.
By 2022, Condé Nast will have 32% of its U.S. workforce non-white, the same proportion as the previous year. Overall, white employees are 62%, down 2 percentage points.
Meanwhile, 70% of Hearst’s workforce is white, down from 71% a year earlier. “We are making steady progress and are actively working to more balance racial and ethnic representation across our brands,” a company spokesperson said. .
New York Times employees are now 56% white. In 2021, it will be 60%, but slightly lower.
VMG’s U.S. workforce is now 58% white, while Vox Media’s workforce is 59% white. “Despite a period of limited recruitment, we remain committed to recruiting from a diverse pool of candidates. Our focus is on a level beyond just new hires,” a Vox spokesperson said.
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(Text by Sara Guaglione, Translation by Kon Tsukamoto, Editing by Ryohei Shimada)
Source: BusinessInsider
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