CAJ launches first newsroom diversity survey

OTTAWA — The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) today announced the launch of the 2020 Canadian Newsroom Diversity Survey, calling it Canada’s first representative survey of diversity in media. Following three years of consultation with experts in survey design and media diversity, the survey will help to gather hard data about who works in Canadian media, says the CAJ’s press release announcing the survey’s launch. “The glaring lack of diversity in Canadian newsrooms is no secret,” said CAJ past president Karyn Pugliese, in the press release. “But without sufficient data collection, it is impossible to understand the full scope of...