Journalists inherit ‘institutional blindspots’ that cloud coverage of race in politics, says media expert

When confronted with their biases, Prof. Tolley says journalists she interviewed for her research tried to explain away differences in their framing of a candidate’s electability.

Hill media scrum Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. Journalists are a product of the institutions that see whiteness as a norm, says University of Toronto professor Erin Tolley.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

June 19, 2019

Increasing the diversity of newsrooms isn’t a cure-all for improving political coverage of racialized people, says a media expert, who argues that journalists often end up inheriting the institutional blindspots o...

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