There are still aftershocks being felt in the media following the recent layoffs at the Los Angeles Times. After the paper cut over 20 percent of its staff, the harsh reality was felt across the news industry. As I covered earlier this week, few journos are interested in looking into the underlying problems motivating this purge. One of the items I came across was that at the LA Times, where they had their newsroom segregated with ethnic caucuses as reporters from various ethnicities were cobbled together.
NBC News has a similar effort in place, with various news departments dedicated to segments of society, such as “NBC Out,” its vertical focusing on gay issues. At another – “NBC Latino” – reporter Suzanne Gamboa looked at the LA Times layoffs and saw the tragedy in the Latino journalists let go and how this loss will translate to a heightened threat of…
