Black journalism

Ken Cooper’s career in journalism began in the mid ’70s at Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked an internship for the St. Louis American and served as editor for the school paper.

Delores Edwards, executive producer of GBH’s “Basic Black,” has guided the show to an award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

A new Pew study looks at diversity across news beats in the U.S. The data comes from a 2022 survey of 12,000 journalists and finds that, like the newsrooms they work in, an overwhelming majority of the reporters covering major beats in the country are white and male.

In 1998, I went undercover as a motorist, driving with a friend through Brookline at 1 a.m. to determine how long it would take for police in the town to pull over a Black motorist. We lasted 20 minutes before three cruisers boxed us in on Beacon Street. An officer asked us whether we were lost and noted that I was from Roxbury.