The business case for diversity is clear, whether in building credibility by representing society or finding stories that interest and engage readers, panelists told the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s annual Trust Conference. “From a financial standpoint, there are so many different advertisers who want to reach different segments of our population,” said Danielle Belton, who in April became editor in chief of U.S.
online news company HuffPost. “If we’re not making the effort to actually reach those individuals, we’re basically just saying we don’t want them.” Black Lives Matter protests across the world last year at the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic forced many, often financially-struggling, newsrooms to question whether