#TBT: Are Unpaid Internships Hurting Newsroom Diversity?

By Kevin Eck 

Filmmaker and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas just signed a deal with the Los Angeles Times to create a new section of the paper’s website focusing on “the intersection of race, immigration, identity and the complexities of multiculturalism.”

For today’s Throwback Thursday, we revisit our June interview with Vargas where he told AdweekTv about his film “Documented” which, at the time, was set to air on CNN.

During our interview, Vargas talked about the role unpaid internships are playing in keeping people of color out of the newsroom.

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