Name: TEDx】數字新聞的力量｜Anita Li｜TEDxDistilleryDistrictWomen(女性) (【TEDx】The Power of Digital Journalism | Anita Li | TEDxDistilleryDistrictWomen)
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Growing up at my house,  we had four square meals a day:

every morning, the newspaper  was delivered to our home

still smelling of fresh newsprint, and in the evenings, without fail,

my parents would turn on the TV to watch  the news at 6 and 11 o'clock sharp.

The boldface bylines I read, and knowing faces I saw

I trusted them to tell me the most important news of the day,

I looked to them  from much more than just that.

These reporters  and the outlets they work for

represented the gold standard in news: fast, accurate, and reliable.

as I worked towards my lifelong goal of becoming a professional storyteller,

while running my high school paper, while managing a campus magazine,

Everyone around me  reinforced their prestige,

where these outlets were discussed  with open reverence.

So when I finally got to join  Canada's storied institutions

- and I reported for several - I felt a deep sense of achievement.

and I was privileged to work  with the best in the business.

But, looking around these newsrooms, I noticed there was something missing,

and that something  was people like me, people of color.

I was always one of the handful  of visible minorities in any newsroom,

and the unfortunate truth is, this isn't out of the ordinary.

Although visible minorities make up  two-fifths of the total U.S. population,

they only represent 12%  of the newspaper workforce.

That's virtually the same  as it was two decades ago.

And the number of management  roles is even smaller,

The situation in TV news is a bit better,

with minorities making up 22%  of the total workforce at local stations,

but that number has also stayed  mostly unchanged over the years.

- I mean, it's actually much worse,  is about what I'm trying to say -

we actually don't have a consistent tally  of minority representation in newsrooms.

fewer minority journalists mean fewer minority perspectives.

Essential voices are missing from the news and so is essential information.

That said, in an industry suffering from heavy job losses,

it's hard for all journalists,  minority or not,

I jumped at the first opportunity for something more stable.

That ended up being  a reporter-editor position

that now has 42 million monthly  unique visitors from around the world.

Although I was excited, - "Yay, employment!" -

I was also nervous, having come  from a traditional media background.

I wasn't sure how others,  especially other journalists, would react.

Would they think  I'd turned to the dark side,

condemned to make listicles  and cat GIFs for all eternity?

online publications to be legitimate sources of news?

But after working in the media  over the past three years,

the worries I had at the beginning have completely disappeared.

I now know that online journalism  gives everyone a voice,

including minorities and others  who aren't well represented.

traditional media outlets tend to have  a dozen or so editors who call the shots.

Although these editors are  highly educated and experienced,

they're also mostly white,  and mostly men.

So the news is filtered through this lens.

Where I work  we also have a team of editors,

looking at how our audience  response to stories,

and we also monitor  online trends in real time.

So not only are we considering  our own news judgement

we're also considering  our readers' news judgement.

it's gone from an exclusive group  of privileged editors

to anyone with an internet connection, and the latter is much more diverse.

Stories historically ignored by the media are now getting attention.

Minority readers demand articles that reflect their experiences.

They're telling us what they want, and we're listening.

I'll give you an example: last year, I wrote an article

about crime-fighting sites targeted to specific ethnicities.

to fight barriers to funding  that minority businesses usually faced.

that received almost no previous coverage  by traditional media outlets,

even though crowdfunding sites were a global phenomenon

When we first published my story, it received more than 3,300 shares.

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