Media Elite Myopia

This is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I can’t help making fun of it. Fine for Quartz to prioritizing diversity. All media sites should. But the utter myopia that is the baseline for these people is amazing.

It turns out there’s a whole wide world of talented people who don’t live in New York. Opening our jobs to them immediately increased the quality of our application pools; we had more and better candidates. By definition, going remote also increased the staff’s geographic diversity, which had knock-on effects, too, like socioeconomic diversity and diversity of perspective. A less obvious result, but just as striking, was the increase in applications from Black and Hispanic candidates. In retrospect, of course widening our aperture would have that effect.

You don’t say! You mean only hiring people who live in your overpriced city might create some problems? But I do have some concerns here. Like, what if those new hires have never had first rate cuisine, such as a prepackaged stale Kaiser roll with margarine? What if they live in cities such as Los Angeles that don’t have museums? I mean, how can we keep up the kind of culture that MATTERS if our hires live in the sticks?