Alert
Reader contends Blade lacks diversity
August 05, 2010
(News Ombudsmen) Does The Blade have enough African-Americans in its newsroom? A reader who signs his name Thomas Fink doesn’t think so and thinks this is deliberate. “It is my contention that the Toledo Blade [has] established and maintained a totally unacceptable policy of racial bias in employment opportunities and news coverage.”
What’s your ombudsman’s opinion? First of all, the newspaper should indeed have more black reporters and editors. But then, so should most papers in the country.