The Advertiser's diversity

The Montgomery Advertiser is following editorial marching orders from Gannett, it's owner, promising to diversify its news coverage, while suggesting they have already made strides in that direction:

"For the past three years, we have made tremendous strides in the inclusivity of our coverage. We have philosophically changed what we cover, how we cover it and who we cover. Frankly, we are reporting more in predominantly Black neighborhoods and telling the stories of the people who live here. It’s an audience and wide swaths of the city we neglected for nearly all of our almost 200 years as a newsroom. It’s really a no-brainer news philosophy in a predominantly Black city. If we are truly serving this community, we need to act like the issues in every neighborhood are our issues regardless if we live there or not. So we did just that."

     Yet, when it comes to management, he writes: 

     "After a recent promotion of an editor, our newsroom leadership currently is two white men.

He apparently is one of them. 

      Oddly, the announcement about the changes is listed under the "Opinion" section of the paper, labeled this way 

"This piece expresses the views of its author(s), separate from those of this publication".

 It is attributed to "Bo Krift, The Montgomery Advertiser, with no title, though he is the paper's executive editor. A photo caption below gives his name and title. 

     So is that a way of saying this change is attributed only to the editor instead of to the paper as a whole?

Read the entire announcement HERE.

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You can read the Gannett parent company announcement in USA Today HERE.