How can local newsrooms retain journalists of color?

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When Emma Carew Grovum started talking with local newsrooms and editors about journalists of color, she heard the same thing again and again: “We can’t keep folks in local news because they’re getting scooped up by The New York Times and The Washington Post.”

She gets it.

“Who’s going to fault somebody for doubling their salary?”

But Carew Grovum wondered “what if someone knew that they were going to be the future of their newsroom?”

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