Media Briefing: Efforts to diversify workforces stall for some publishers

This week’s Media Briefing analyzes nine publishers’ workforce demographics reports released this year. The results were an even split: efforts stalled at a third of the companies analyzed, while another third made improvements and the remaining third’s staff diversity worsened.

• Three out of the nine publishers haven’t moved the needle on the overall diversity of their companies in the past year.

• Condé Nast layoffs, Q&A with Perplexity’s head of publisher partnerships, The Onion’s failed bid to buy Infowars and more.

A third of the nine publishers that released workforce demographic reports in the past year haven’t moved the needle on the overall diversity of their companies, according to the annual reports that are tracked by Digiday.

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