"In the past year, the Columbia Journalism Review has joined other institutions in and out of journalism to look closely at our role in addressing racial injustice," CJR's Kyle Pope wrote in an Editor's Note to this collection of articles.
"CJR has long viewed itself as both an advocate of the press and a watchdog of media, twin roles that we take seriously. We have an obligation to model best practices in an industry that has imbued us with institutional authority. The stories in this package — written by Shinhee Kang, Ian Karbal, and Feven Merid, CJR fellows who combed through decades of our coverage — examine how this magazine has reflected the industry, at moments when we were effective leaders and those in which we were not."
