Diversity anyone?

It’s easy to publish easy news everyday. Every time you turn around some professor is getting published or an honors student has won another award. These stories fill the mailboxes of editors and reporters everyday. While this is refreshing, it's often the easy way out for your local news media — especially a community/college paper.

A bright light should be shined when credit is due, but my fear as a news editor/student is that the paper will somehow become a daily complement to the university.

If there is one fatal flaw in our new coverage here at The DM, it's that we don’t reach out to a diverse audience. According to recent data collected from the Department of Outreach, the Oxford campus (excluding satellite campuses) is:

80.9% White
12.7% Black
0.9% Multiple
4.1% Other
1.3% Unknown

It’s shocking when looking at the data that the number of minorities at Ole Miss is so small that they are grouped into categories such as “other” and "multiple."

We want to reach out to the community thats voices are never heard. A plan for covering a more diverse crowd in Oxford/Ole Miss is in the works right now, but a little help can go a long way when starting something like this. Shoot your ideas for diversity reporting to thedmnews@gmail.com with ATTN: DIVERSITY in the subject.

Whose story are we not telling?