> PBS built out its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team in fiscal year 2022. The public broadcaster’s second annual DEI report, released Monday morning, noted that the network created a DEI Office during the period and hired a staff, including DEI head Cecilia Loving and DEI director Gina Leow, in addition to establishing employee resource groups and DEI advocates and committees.

> The moves coincided with its workforce reaching 44 percent BIPOC, a six-year high and higher than the 37 percent average across the broadcast industry. Fifty-six percent of PBS’ 551 total staffers are white, 20 percent are Black, 11 percent are Asian, 10 percent are Hispanic or Latino, 2 percent are multiracial, less than 1 percent are Pacific Islander and none are Native American. Among the executive ranks, 29 percent of PBS execs are Black and the rest are white. More than half of the network’s technicians and administrative support staff are BIPOC (63 percent and 57 percent, respectively). Sixty percent of all staff identify as women, including 43 percent of the executive ranks. Meanwhile, PBS’ 27-member board has 13 women (compared to 14 last fiscal year) and 10 people of color (up from eight).

> PBS has also tracked the race/ethnicity and gender demographics of its hiring, promotion and exits, which all reached six-year highs in fiscal year 2022. Among the 147 newest employees, 73 percent are women and 48 percent are BIPOC. Women comprised nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of the 69 promotions and 53 percent of the 95 exits, while 35 percent of last year’s promoted employees and 36 percent of departures were BIPOC.

does PBS have their content on a streaming service? I can't remember watching any PBS content for decades.

It isn't like the old days where they were one of the 4 channels on the antenna so they were a cultural institution. I can't blame them for taking risks to try and stay relevant in the changing landscape.

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So they already have a majority of women on staff and the new hires are even more skewed towards women? How diverse!

5 dollars a month to your nearby PBS station gets you a subscription to their streaming service.

My takeaway from this is that they are discriminating against Latinos. Almost 20% of the population, yet no executive representation and only 10% of the workforce.

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there must not be enough diversity among them

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They aren't obligated to represent any group over the others

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Just like NPR. They're catering to latte liberals rather than the working class and others who actually depend on public radio and television.

You can add PBS Documentaries or PBS Masterpiece to Amazon Prime.

Media can sometimes achieve 100% diversity. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4kov7y/huffington_post_tweeted_this_photo_while_bragging/

Isn't the whole point of PBS learning, not just experiencing stuff they already know about? And last year's documentary slate notably benefited from this initiative and had great documentaries like The Last Out, Shut Up and Paint, Scenes from the Glittering World, Let the Little Light Shine, Midwives, Delikado, When Claude Got Shot, Owned, Happiness is 4 Million, An Act of Worship, etc.

This is all off the top of my head just from POV and Independent Lens btw, not even getting into Ken Burns's documentary about Muhammad Ali, America Reframed, etc.

I still find the idea of DEI reports to be awkward. Like the shit should not be a quota. Just look for talent first in diverse areas.