Soledad OBrien on News Medias Reckoning with Racism
b'As newsrooms across the country confront issues of race and diversity, award-winning journalist Soledad O\\u2019Brien says it\\u2019s a welcome \\u201cMeToo\\u201d moment for journalists of color to speak out. O\'Brien detailed her own experiences in a recent op-ed for the New York Times including being called the "affirmative-action hire" by colleagues at her first job. Today, after years working at major news outlets such as NBC and CNN, she\'s the chief executive of her own production company and regularly uses her Twitter feed to call out poor journalism in headlines and interviews. We\\u2019ll talk to O\\u2019Brien about how newsrooms should address racism in hiring and news coverage and\\xa0 get her take on the state of journalism in the Trump era.'