Race, Storytelling, and the Future of Journalism with W. Kamau Bell and ChanCellore Makanjuola

Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 9 p.m.

In the past year, journalists have been out in the streets covering racial reckoning and protest.\xa0 Inside newsrooms \u2013 which are overwhelmingly white \u2013 media organizations are beginning to confront inequity in their own ranks.\xa0 When journalism is mostly led by a privileged class of white men, what does that mean for the kinds of stories that get covered, missed, or undervalued? On November 20, 2020, in a co-production with the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, cultural critic, comedian, and CNN docu-series host W. Kamau Bell joined graduate student Chan\u2019Cellore Makanjuola for a conversation about race, storytelling, and the future of journalism.