Times Corps | The New York Times Company

The New York Times selects students for an elite internship and mentoring program. A student local to where I live was selected – which is great.

I went through their online list and cross referenced to LinkedIn, personal websites, prior articles about them, and created this classification based on the U.S. government’s methods of classification.

Racial / Ethnic classification

• BIPOC – 7
• Hispanic/Latin – 6
• White 5
• Unknown 1

Sex

• 12 are female
• 6 are male
• 1 is unknown

Sex and Race/Ethnicity

• Female Black or BIPOC – 5
• Female Hispanic/Latin – 4
• Male white 3
• Female White – 2
• Male Hispanic/Latin – 2
• Female Asian – 1
• Male Black (mixed) – 1
• Unknown 1

One of the interns is from Brazil. I used the government’s unusual ranking of a person from Brazil as “hispanic/Latin” American. Brazil’s primary language is Portuguese, not Spanish. While a Latin language, the population is not “hispanic”.

The distribution of selectees by sex and race/ethnicity does not mirror the US population. However, this could be because those who choose to study journalism no longer represent the distribution of the US population. Currently, women studying journalism outnumber men about 2:1. Many will enter journalism from other fields, such as English Literature, Creative Writing, Political Science and so forth, which are also biased towards women.

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