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Diversity is not like, an add-on thing we do.
We don't, in journalism, go out and say,
"Okay, let's check this box, make sure we've got X perspective."
Diversity is part of telling the full picture of your community.
And as a good journalist, that's what you do.
You're not out to represent specific interests or factions
or to frame the issue in a particular way.
Really, your goal, in terms of doing good journalism,
is to find out what everybody's thinking as much as possible.
Of course, "everybody," it's a broad term, you can't find out what everybody's thinking.
But to make sure that you have included the various values systems,
because different people are going to value different things and,
therefore, going to foreground those values in the answers they give you.
And you yourself have your own personal values.
And those are going to shape and influence the questions you ask.
So, sometimes simply talking to a person
who comes from a different
one of those fault lines,
can illuminate issues for you that you had not considered
when you were formulating your questions.
So, good stories come from good questions.
We can't ask good questions based solely on our own lived experience.