OFF THE RECORD
AN INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE ABOUT THE REALITY OF WORKING AS A JOURNALIST OF COLOR
AN INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE ABOUT THE REALITY OF WORKING AS A JOURNALIST OF COLOR
This interactive story aims to provide a window into a week as a journalist of color.
Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.
However, the story it depicts is real. Journalists of color face both structural and social barriers, every single day, in the course of their work.
The effects of added daily stress, aggression, and devaluation from their peers and audiences means an inability to advance professionally, skewed representation in stories, a high burnout rate, and profound emotional trauma.
This story presents only a few of the hundreds of small decisions that journalists of color have to make, every day, that may have profound impacts on their careers and sense of self.
The goal of this narrative may initially seem to be navigating professional minefields nimbly enough to secure a promotion, but the goal for every journalist of color is not a bigger paycheck or a better title, but equality.
That starts with empathy from their audiences and organizations, but perhaps above all, their white peers.
Note: While this game does deal with the subject of discrimination in the workplace, it does not include the use of racial slurs, overt sexual harassment, or physical violence.
> Meet Z Khan
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n4:30 PM\nOUTSIDE CLIX OFFICE</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">When you leave Dylan’s office, you find yourself leaving the building entirely, wanting some fresh air. Your phone beeps. Dylan’s already emailed you documents: an editorial calendar with upcoming stories, a copy of your contract, a document about managerial policies, an updated copy of diversity and inclusion statements.\n\nYou click open the email with the copy of your new contract. It’s long and dizzying. You skip to the salary.\n\nYour stomach sinks when you see it. \n\nIt’s an improvement over the crumbs you’re earning now. But it’s much less than you thought. You’re almost sure Dylan’s paid more. You don’t know if you have bargaining power. \n\nYou don’t want to think about it right now. Instead, you click over to the editorial calendar. Your team is who you thought, and you’re familiar with all the stories there. You see Rhys’ story has been approved. He’s the assigned writer. \n\nJust then, a notification pops up on screen. It’s an email from Ari.\n\n<div id="email"><div id="email-subj">Congrats!</div><div style="display:flex;"><div id="email-icon"><span class="material-icons" style="font-size:40px;">account_circle</span></div><div id="email-cont"><div id="email-sender"><b>ari@clix.com</b></div><div id="email-recp">Me<span class="material-icons" style="vertical-align:bottom; font-size:20px;">arrow_drop_down</span></div><div id="email-message">word on the street is that there will be many more CLIX diversity panels in ur future ;)</div></div></div></div>\nYou lock your phone and shove it in your pocket.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Meet the real Z Khans', 'Monday: Waiting for decision meeting', 'newsroom', 0)">Meet the real Z Khans</a></b>\n\n\n</div>
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>FRIDAY\n10:30 AM\nCONFERENCE CENTER LOBBY</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">You go to the souvenir shop with Schuyler and Ari. You pick up a fridge magnet. The excursion helps calm your nerves. After, you meet up with Carla, who is standing outside the entrance. \n\nShe starts rummaging around her bag for your passes and realizes she left them at the hotel. Your colleagues are visibly annoyed but Carla says it’ll be fine; you’ll show security CLIX press passes and explain what happened and you’ll all get in. \n\nYou know that with your last name, you’re much less likely to be allowed into an official event without the right ID. But the hotel is 20 minutes away — it would be a 40 minute round trip. If you go back to get your pass, you’ll be late for panel prep.\n\n<hr><b>> [[Return to the hotel.][$points += 1]]\n> [[Try to get through security.][$points -= 2]]</b>\n\n</div>
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>TUESDAY\n1:30 PM\nAIRPORT</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">Better safe than sorry. You pass on lunch, disappointing your colleagues, but you feel relieved that you got to the airport with ample time when the security agent takes extra time looking over your passport. \n\nDespite the passport check, you make it to the gate with extra time and you wonder what you’re missing. You get a coffee and muffin from the boarding gate Starbucks and do some prep for your panel.\n\nAri, Carla, and Schuyler join you as the flight is boarding, in the nick of time, giggling and full from lunch. You checked in separately, so you’re assigned separate seats. The three of them sit next to each other a few rows in front of you, and you see them sharing snacks and joking before the flight takes off.\n\nAfter you land, you all take a cab together to the hotel. You’re all tired and go straight to your separate rooms. You stay up for hours going over panel notes, memorizing statistics about diversity.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Conference, Day One', 'Skip it.', 'lobby', 0)">Conference, Day One</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">You rush back to the hotel and grab the passes from an understanding concierge. You rush through security and stumble into the room behind the stage 40 minutes late for panel prep, sweaty and dishevelled.\n\nThe moderator is there and sees you come in. You can tell they’re annoyed, and they make a beeline for you. But before they can lay into you, you explain, and their look softens. \n\n“Been there. There’s a spare set of jackets in the back and some water. Grab a bottle. It’ll help. And take a second to breathe. You’ve still got a few minutes.”\n\nYou go to the back. A blazer miraculously slips on like a glove, covering your sweat stains. You splash some cold water on your face and check yourself in the mirror. You don’t look as good as you’d like, but you’re presentable.\n\nThe moderator calls everyone: 10 minutes until the panel starts. Time to get onstage.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('On with the show.', 'Return to the hotel.', 'panel', 0)">On with the show.</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">There are nods of agreement from some. The panel wraps and the room empties. The other panelists turn to you and thank you for your honesty, and for a moment you feel relieved to have said what you’ve been thinking for years. \n\nYou get up and go find Carla, Ari and Schulyer outside. You can’t read the look on their faces, but you don’t think it’s good.\n\nFinally, one of them speaks.\n\n“Is that how you really feel about working with us?” Carla asks.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Monday: Wait for decision meeting', 'Tell them what you really think.', 'office', 0)">Monday: Wait for decision meeting</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long"><div class="title"><b>OFF THE RECORD</b>\nAN INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE ABOUT THE REALITY OF WORKING AS A JOURNALIST OF COLOR</div>\nThis interactive story aims to provide a window into a week as a journalist of color. \n\nNames, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. \n\nHowever, the story it depicts is real. Journalists of color face both structural and social barriers, every single day, in the course of their work. \n\nThe effects of added daily stress, aggression, and devaluation from their peers and audiences means an inability to advance professionally, skewed representation in stories, a high burnout rate, and profound emotional trauma. \n\nThis story presents only a few of the hundreds of small decisions that journalists of color have to make, every day, that may have profound impacts on their careers and sense of self.\n\nThe goal of this narrative may initially seem to be navigating professional minefields nimbly enough to secure a promotion, but the goal for every journalist of color is not a bigger paycheck or a better title, but equality.\n\nThat starts with empathy from their audiences and organizations, but perhaps above all, their white peers.\n\n//Note: While this game does deal with the subject of discrimination in the workplace, it does not include the use of racial slurs, overt sexual harassment, or physical violence.//\n\n<hr><b>></b> <a onclick="transition_long('Meet Z Khan', 'Start', 'newsroom', 0)">Meet Z Khan</a>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">“Earlier this week, one of our on-staff newsroom reporters pitched a story. It turned out to actually be from a blogger in that community — a minority community — and our writer thought nothing of bringing it to CLIX under their byline,” you explain.\n\nYou hear the audience murmur in response.\n\n“This kind of thing happens all the time to writers who don’t have someone to advocate for them.”\n\nThe moderator is nodding in agreement and the other panelists have jumped onboard, digging into the subject, but you can’t help feeling a little queasy. You heard how it sounded. You didn’t mean to make Rhys come across that way. \n\nFinally, the moderator says it’s time for the next subject.\n\n<hr><b>> [[Next question]]</b>\n\n</div>\n\n\n\n
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n9:00 AM\nCLIX NEWSROOM, CONFERENCE ROOM B</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">The weekly morning brainstorm is informal and attendance isn’t mandatory, but the staff never misses it. Here, staff writers bring story ideas they have for feedback. It’s a sort of story clinic: a good time to get feedback without the pressure of a calendar, and people feel free to talk. \n\nYou’re on a plane to the conference tomorrow, gone for the rest of the week, so you don’t have any ideas to throw out. But you’re not sure how you feel about that meeting with Dylan, so you go anyway to distract yourself. \n\nYour young colleague Rhys is there. Rhys is adorable: friendly, charming, blonde-haired, gray-eyed, and overly eager to prove himself. On your way in, he hands you a specialty coffee. Once a week, he buys you one from your favorite place. He remembers exactly what you order (lattes on most days, red eyes on Mondays). It pulls at your heart a bit. Lately he hasn’t been getting good stories. You know he’s in need of a win. \n\nWhen it’s his turn to speak, he starts to tell the team about an idea he has. He’s been bursting to talk, so you’re hoping it’s good. \n\n“So you guys know how Native American women have been being killed in record numbers? And that’s been in the news recently?”\n\nYou get an uneasy feeling.\n\nA recent disappearance happened nearby. It was particularly tragic. Rhys says he has exclusive access. \n\nYou’re a bit concerned. Rhys has spoken to you often about his upbringing in Rhode Island and his college education in Manhattan. He’s never once mentioned ties with Native American communities. You know how common it is for journalists to run in and cover a community they know almost nothing about and get it completely wrong, and hurt the residents in the process. You also know that, surely, this is just <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uk0LrP2iM22rY39quqJZBZOstFNAGirJd5KH9hjRAKo/edit?usp=sharing">ethically questionable.</a>You wonder how he got this “exclusive access.”\n\n<hr><b>> [[Press Rhys on his “exclusive access.”][$points += 1]]</b>\n<b>></b> Don't say anything. You have other things to worry about and Rhys is a responsible reporter. You're sure he thought about this. Let the meeting run to its end. <a onclick="transition('Head to your desk.', 'Head to 9 AM Meeting', 'newsroom', -1)">Head to your desk.</a></b>\n\n</div>
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<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n7:45 AM\nCLIX Newsroom</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">Early morning, and most of the desks in the newsroom are empty.\n\nFor the past few years, you’ve been working for CLIX, a buzzy digital publication that has grabbed the public’s attention at the moment. Today, you’re one of the first reporters into work. You usually are.\n\nYou’ve made your name here gradually but surely, climbing your way up from a 24-year-old intern to being their “Identities” reporter. (Though you’ll admit you were uniquely qualified for the job — you’re one of a handful of non-white employees in a staff of four dozen people.) \n\nIt has been three years of acidic coffee, slim paychecks, brutal hours, a social circle that consists almost exclusively of other anxious journalists, and the unavoidable side effects of exhaustion or a persistent, low-level cold.\n\nNonetheless, you took the opportunity and ran with it, churning out rapid responses to the controversy du jour and amassing a large social media following. Recently, one of your essays — on living with a Muslim name in modern America — went viral, cementing your place as a rising star in the newsroom.\n\n<hr><b>> [[Start the day]]</b>\n\n</div>
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<div class="text long">You don’t know what to say, so you move on to the next subject, figuring out where to get bags, where the first panel is, where the coffee stations are at. You don’t know if Schuyler notices.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Start the conference', 'Say nothing.', 'hotel', 0)">Start the conference</a></b>\n\n</div>\n
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>WEDNESDAY\n8:00 AM\nCONFERENCE CENTER LOBBY</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">On the first morning at the conference, the lobby is swarming with journalists. \n\nYou pick up a program. The schedule is packed, with multiple sessions on digital transformation, graphic design, and the future of news. The panel you’ll be speaking on about diversity in journalism is on the last day, in the last hours. You notice that despite this, when you check availability on the site, the session is oversubscribed.\n\nSchuyler comments on how great the program is and how they’ve hit on all the really important topics, though he does wonder about your panel. \n\n“Is it really necessary?” he asks. Then he looks at you and seems to remember you’re on it. “No offense to you personally — I’m, like, glad you’re on the team, it’s not that,” he fumbles, then presses on regardless.\n\n“It just comes across as being there to be politically correct. I mean, we talk about diversity so much every day; do we need a whole session about it here, too?”\n\n<hr><b>></b> There's no point in starting an argument. <b>[[Say nothing.]]</b>\n<b>></b> It’s a great opportunity for your career and you rarely get these. <b>[[Remind him of that.][$points += 1]]</b>\n<b>> [[Laugh it off.][$points -= 1]] </b>\n\n</div>\n
<div class="text long">The panel goes on for another agonizing 30 minutes. The rest of the questions are more standard, though you still feel off balance from the first one.\n\nThe moderator closes with a standard question that somehow also throws you: “Knowing what you know now, what would you tell someone — another aspiring journalist of color — who wanted to enter the field?” \n\nYou’ve discussed this with friends before. You know what you all think: nobody sane would enter this industry. They should find another job — this one is likely to reject them or burn them out. You know that if you could choose again, you might have picked another industry.\n\n<hr><b>> [[Tell them what people told you, even if you’re not sure you believe it.]]</b> “It’s an unprecedented time in the industry, and there are a lot of changes,” you chant, having heard similar things so many times you don’t know if the words are your own. “But that also means a lot of opportunity for people who work hard. Come in early every day, write your best stories, tell your truth, master a speciality, find allies, and eventually, you’ll get where you need to go.”\n\n<b>> [[Tell them what you really think.][$points += 2]]</b> That minority journalists aren’t welcome in this industry, and it’s unlikely they’ll make it. That they’ll likely join a staff that will only value them as a token symbol of diversity. That there are better jobs and careers out there.\n\n</div>
<<twitterload>>\n<div class="text long">\nThese are a few embedded tweets that have come out in recent days from journalists of color about their experiences in newsrooms.\n<hr>\n<div id="twitter-list">\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I tell this whole saga to every young poc journalist who asks me for advice. I tell them, maybe it'll help you get your foot in the door. But it might not be easy. It might not be worth it. You'll be paid bad wages to do menial work. And you'll be expected to be thankful for it.</p>— Amal Ahmed (@amalykinz) <a href="https://twitter.com/amalykinz/status/1269668619052617737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ok. I’ll share. I was invited by a VP to a meeting to rethink content strategy. When I show up to the meeting, that VP ask if I was tech support to help with the projector. I politely say “ohm... I’m the visual editor and you invited me to this meeting”. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LivingWhileJOC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LivingWhileJOC</a></p>— Paul Cheung (@pcheung630) <a href="https://twitter.com/pcheung630/status/1270107725624741903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's not just editors. This entire industry is filled with whites who talk shit about us behind our backs. Like this one, a white investigative immigration reporter who says all the right things publicly but texts shit like this privately. And yes, Dara, the media IS too white. <a href="https://t.co/aMeEZY9Do8">pic.twitter.com/aMeEZY9Do8</a></p>— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) <a href="https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1270758639448420353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tracy Grant then told me, “I don’t know how to say this, but you don’t have U.S. newsroom experience.” It dawned on my right there what she meant: my 14 years of experience in Spanish-language publications meant nothing to her, bc those newsrooms weren’t “U.S. newsrooms.”</p>— Gustavo Martinez (@newsguz) <a href="https://twitter.com/newsguz/status/1270728018693152768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Days after Adam Rapoport wrote that "food is political," he once again refused to raise the salary of the magazine's only Black woman on staff — who he also expected to clean his golf clubs — from $35,300 <a href="https://t.co/BC5769I3Pp">t.co/BC5769I3Pp</a> <a href="https://t.co/3km8y34raI">pic.twitter.com/3km8y34raI</a></p>— Kate Taylor (@Kate_H_Taylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kate_H_Taylor/status/1270560147925065728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What doesn’t get said enough is the pain poc have to go through in order to get diversity. The worst moments in my career happened at CJR. One conversation left me in tears. And while my actions yielded new writers, hires and even events, I’ll never get a sorry or a thank you.</p>— Justin Ray (@by_justin) <a href="https://twitter.com/by_justin/status/1270745393526009856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The pres of a podcast company accused me of lying at an all-staff about diversity numbers his own HR rep had shared with me shortly before.<br><br>Later yelled at me asking "If diversity is so bad here, why are you still here?"<br><br>The gaslighting and disregard is in every part of media. <a href="https://t.co/P5XUJ9TDJj">t.co/P5XUJ9TDJj</a></p>— HousePlant Papi (@eeddings) <a href="https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1270024287966171136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All this publishing pay talk reminds me of the time one of my bosses at Hearst told me they couldn’t give me a raise but that I should try to appreciate the value of “non- monetary benefits” like “getting to enjoy the escalator waterfall every morning.”</p>— Alejandra Ramos (@alwaysalejandra) <a href="https://twitter.com/alwaysalejandra/status/1270762053293297664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One of my former colleagues who’s biracial DMed me to tell me how working at Refinery29 literally ruined his life. Getting “can I say the n word?” asked to him by his own direct boss, then blackballed. <a href="https://t.co/oZa0RsSN0p">pic.twitter.com/oZa0RsSN0p</a></p>— Sophie Ross (@SophRossss) <a href="https://twitter.com/SophRossss/status/1268708683468472320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a Latina, I also have things to say about <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BuzzFeed</a>. Like that time I found out a white dude who reported directly to me made WAY more than I did. When I complained, instead of acknowledging the pay gap, they moved him to report to another white dude. <a href="https://t.co/SpNjmSpwlv">t.co/SpNjmSpwlv</a></p>— Conz Preti (@conz) <a href="https://twitter.com/conz/status/1268610193014710274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>\n</div><hr><b>></b> <a style="font-size:16px;" onclick="resetGame('Meet Z Khan', 'Meet the real Z Khans')">Restart the game</a>\n\n</div>
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n4:00 PM\nCLIX NEWSROOM, DYLAN'S OFFICE</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">It has been the longest day of your working life. You haven’t seen Rhys, and he hasn’t texted or emailed to ask how the conference was, which is unusual for him, so you know things aren’t good between you. \n\nYou’ve been avoiding the team and haven’t been able to concentrate. At 4 PM, Dylan finally calls you into his office.\n\n<<if $points gt 0>>“Have a seat,” he says. The moment you sit down, you see his face and you know what he’s going to say. \n\n“I was really rooting for you, and you have a lot of potential, but we’re going in a different direction. Maybe the next time a position opens up.” \n\nYou start getting angry. \n\n“What do you mean, in a different direction?” you demand despite yourself, and then, unexpectedly, you hear yourself ask, “What did I do wrong?” \n\nDylan sighs.\n\n“I know it isn’t easy all the time, but if you want to get ahead, you just need to try a little harder to make connections here. Make friends. Fit in. Do you know what I mean?”\n\nYou don’t. You have no idea how you could have tried harder. But you know there’s no point in asking.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Meet the real Z Khans', 'Monday: Wait for decision meeting','newsroom', 0)">Meet the real Z Khans</a></b><br><br></div><<endif>><<if $points is 0>> He doesn’t even let you sit before he speaks. “Congrats,” he grins. “I know it wasn’t easy, but you did it.”\n\nYou’re stunned. Dylan is beaming and talking at you, but you hear a buzzing in your ears and you don’t quite follow. You feel all the exhaustion from the last few years is catching up to you at once. You thought you’d be happier. You might be tearing up, and Dylan mistakes it for happiness.\n\n“I’m glad this means so much to you!” he says, opening a drawer to reveal a flask of whisky and two paper cups. He pulls them out and pours a shot for you, winking, “Trade secret. It helps.”\n\n<hr><b>> [[Down the shot]]</b><br><br></div><<endif>><<if $points lt 0>> “Have a seat,” he says. The moment you sit down, you see his face and you know what he's going to say. \n\n“We’re going in a different direction. It was thought that we needed someone who could represent the brand a bit better. I know this is disappointing.” \n\nYou swallow, fighting back tears. The last few years suddenly feel like a waste.\n\n“Hey, chin up. You’ve got a great following and have done some killer work here. It’s just a bump. You’re sure to get ahead one day,” he says, though you’ve worked together long enough to know he doesn’t fully believe that himself.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Meet the real Z Khans', 'Monday: Wait for decision meeting', 'newsroom', 0)">Meet the real Z Khans</a></b><br><br></div><<endif>>
<div class="text long">Security doesn’t let you through. They’re sympathetic but firm, saying you’ll need the right ID and it’s policy. Carla, Ari and Schuyler want to stay and persuade them — they keep insisting to them that it isn’t a big deal and pulling up their profiles on the CLIX website — but you're losing valuable minutes arguing. You know you’ll have to go back to the hotel.\n\nAfter a hectic trip to the hotel, you grab the passes from an understanding concierge, rush through security and stumble into the room behind the stage almost an hour late for panel prep, sweaty and dishevelled.\n\nThe moderator is there and seems slightly annoyed when they see you. They make a beeline for you, but before they can lay into you, you explain, and their look softens. \n\n“Been there. There’s a spare set of jackets in the back and some water. Grab a bottle. It’ll help. And take a second to breathe. You’ve still got a few minutes.”\n\nYou go to the back. A blazer miraculously slips on like a glove, covering your sweat stains. You splash some cold water on your face and check yourself in the mirror. You don’t look as good as you’d like, but you look presentable.\n\nThe moderator calls everyone: five minutes until the panel starts. Time to get onstage.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('On with the show.', 'Try to get through security.', 'panel', 0)">On with the show.</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">You don’t think it makes sense and you feel semi-defeated already just saying it, but you don’t want to start a fight this early, especially not with Dylan.\n\nHe nods, seeming relieved. He tells you the matter is still under discussion and he’ll let you know their decision when you get back from the conference.\n\nYou make some small talk about his new job and the upcoming conference before a team meeting at 9 AM, when the workday starts full steam.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Head to 9 AM meeting', 'Okay, that makes sense.', 'conferenceroom', 0)">Head to 9 AM meeting</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>TUESDAY\n1:30 PM\nAIRPORT</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">You haven’t enjoyed much of lunch.\n\nYou’ve downed a beer to calm your nerves, but still keep glancing at your watch. You don’t want to rush anyone, but you’re concerned you’ll be late. \n\nNonetheless, Ari has already given valuable information. The promotion is basically between you and one other person. You don’t know them very well, but you know they’re great at their job, sharp and — you realize why Dylan’s words stung when you think of the word — “realistic”.\n\nYour thoughts are interrupted when Ari brings up the next piece of insider information: how you perform at the conference panel will be a deciding factor.\n\nGreat. No pressure.\n\nYou drink another couple of beers over lunch, hoping it’ll help. The check comes and you make it to the airport just in time, anxious and unpleasantly tipsy.\n\nYou head to the hotel and crash, woozy, tired, and realizing you’re now dreading the panel on the third day.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Conference, Day One', 'Accept the invitation.', 'lobby',0)">Conference, Day One</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">You look at him, and the silence sits heavy between you.\n\nHe sighs, knowing better than to press. He tells you the best candidate is still under discussion, and he’ll let you know their decision when you get back from the conference.\n\nHe asks you how work is going. You make some small talk about his new job and the upcoming conference before a team meeting at 9, when the workday starts full steam.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Head to 9 AM meeting', 'Say nothing. You know it’s safer.', 'conferenceroom', 0)">Head to 9 AM meeting</a></b>\n\n</div>\n\n\n\n
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n8:15 AM\nCLIX NEWSROOM, DYLAN’S OFFICE</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">Dylan, somehow always earlier than you, is sitting at his desk when you come in. It’s covered in awards and thank-you notes from journalists he’s mentored over the years. He’s tough on your work but fair on you as a person, and has always been in your corner. You think it’s because he’s from a minority background himself.\n\nHe gestures for you to sit across from him and, in true Dylan fashion, cuts straight to the chase.\n\n“I’ve accepted a job elsewhere. I’ll be moving on. It’s been wonderful working with you the last few years.”\n\nYou’re trying to collect your words and say the right thing, when he says something even more surprising.\n\n“We’ve been talking about my replacement. We’ve narrowed the pool down. I’d love to see you at this desk.”\n\nYou’re stunned for a moment, but you can tell from Dylan's face he’s sincere. As if to show you he means it, he gives an encouraging nod.\n\nYou’re thrilled. All that work is about to pay off. You already have all sorts of ideas that you’ve been thinking about over the years that a managing editor position would let you advocate for. A work from home policy for your team. Diversity initiatives. More transparency about pay equality in the newsroom. You start listing them excitedly.\n\nUnexpectedly, Dylan cuts you off. He loves your enthusiasm, he says, but this is what he wanted to talk to you about. \n\n“As reporters, our job is to criticize the system, and you’re great at that. But working in a company, change is slower, and you get a lot less done than you think by stepping on the wrong toes.” \n\nA cold feeling starts to creep over you.\n\n“Like that diversity initiative. It’s a great idea and definitely in line with our corporate values. But in practice, it would be really hard to implement.”\n\nYou’re confused. This is unexpected.\n\n“I’m not telling you those aren’t great ideas,” he says, and you realize your face must be betraying what you’re thinking. “I just want you to be realistic. These are choices I’ve had to make myself, and they’re not easy. Do you understand what I mean?” \n\nHe looks at you keenly, and you know what you say next matters.\n\n<hr><b>> [[“Okay, that makes sense.”][$points -= 1]]\n> [[“I get why you’d say that. But I think it’s really time for some changes around here.”][$points += 1]]\n> [[Say nothing. You know it’s safer.]]</b>\n\n</div>
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<div class="text long">You feel a flash of anger, but you know there’s no point talking about it. You laugh to hide your discomfort. \n\nYou move quickly on to the next subject, figuring out where to get bags, where the first panel is, where the coffee stations are at. Schuyler doesn’t notice.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Start the conference', 'Laught it off.', 'hotel', 0)">Start the conference</a></b>\n\n</div>\n\n\n\n
<div class="text long">The whisky burns your throat, and you’re coughing when Dylan follows up, “You’ve been on the ground with the others until now. That’s the easy part. Now, people will be looking to you for answers — it’s about to get tougher.” \n\nMid-cough, you look at him. Is this what a promotion feels like? This doesn’t feel celebratory.\n\n“We’ll tell the team next week, and we’ll talk about a timeline for your transition,” Dylan says. “You’ll join me at the next editorial meeting so you can see how things work. I’ll share the information with you now so you can have a look through.” He pauses. “Have I mentioned I’m proud of you?"\n\nYour head’s still spinning and you nod. You tell Dylan thank you and that you need a minute to process.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Leave Dylan\s’s office', 'Down the shot', 'outside', 0)">Leave Dylan's Office</a></b>\n\n</div>
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<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>FRIDAY\n12:00 PM\nCONFERENCE CENTER, DIVERSITY PANEL</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">The room is bigger than you anticipated, and it’s packed. You can just about make out Ari, Carla and Schuyler in the crowd, Carla waving madly at you in support. You wonder how they got in.\n\nIn the first rows, you see some of the reporters and writers you’ve been reading and retweeting for years. Your palms start to sweat again and you’re sorry you missed whatever the moderator said to prepare participants. \n\nIn your head, you repeat statistics you’ve memorized. \n\nMore than 77% of newsroom employees are non-Hispanic Whites.\n\nYou think of examples of blunders that highlight bias: producers mistaking Kobe Bryant for LeBron James, Wasim Akram mistaken for Imran Khan...\n\nYou hear the moderator welcome everyone to the panel and then open with a question you weren’t expecting.\n\n“Tell us about a time you saw or experienced people of color’s experiences being devalued in your newsroom, or when doing your job.”\n\nYou freeze. You weren’t expecting that. Your statistics won’t help you with this question.\n\nYour face is getting hot and you can’t hear what the first panelist is saying. \n\nThey’re going round robin. They’ll come to you soon.\n\n<hr><b>></b> You think of the executive team back at the office hearing your answer. You can’t afford this right now. It would undo all the hard work you’ve done, just for a soundbite. [[Say you haven’t personally seen that happening at CLIX.][$points -= 2]] </b>\n\n<b>></b> You’re panicking and struggling to think of what to say. You think of the editorial meeting from earlier that week. It seems like a fairly harmless thing to talk about. Your turn is coming soon. Without mentioning names, [[bring up the Rhys incident.][$points += 2]]</b>\n\n<b>></b> You think back to your meeting about representing the company and think of the long game. [[Give a non-answer about the importance of diversity in journalism.]]</b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">The moderator raises one eyebrow and you hear the panelist next to you scoff or chuckle — you’re not sure which, but you know it isn’t good. \n\nYou listen to the next panelists tell story after story about being asked to do extra work or assistant tasks, seeing their own communities ignored or stereotyped, scolded for speaking up, shoved in front of cameras for photoshoots to make the company look more diverse, or being mistaken for maintenance staff. The audience murmurs in recognition. \n\nYou kick yourself, because you see yourself in so much of it.\n\n<hr><b>> [[Next question]]</b>\n\n</div>\n\n\n
<div class="text long">You start listing all the places the CLIX website states its commitment to equality — and all the pieces they run criticizing governments and other corporations for not doing more — when you know your own newsroom doesn’t have enough workers of color to bother making a separate Slack group. (The upper levels monitor everything you say anyway, so it’s not like you can complain.)\n\nDylan shakes his head. You know he knows all this. He’s heard you say it before. You can tell he wants to say more, but he also knows better than to argue with you when you’re determined.\n\n“Yes,” he says, then seems to stop himself and sighs.\n\n“The ladder’s hard to climb, Z. You won’t make it if you make the people who can help you up angry.” He pauses. “But I hope you do anyway.”\n\nHe closes the subject by telling you the best candidate for the job is still under discussion, and he’ll let you know the company’s decision when you get back from the conference.\n\nYou make some small talk about his new job and the upcoming conference. You check the time and it’s almost 9 AM, time for a team meeting when the workday starts full steam.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Head to 9 AM meeting', 'I get why you’d say that. But I think it’s really time for some changes around here.', 'conferenceroom', 0)">Head to 9 AM meeting</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">“I don’t know,” you counter, trying to keep an even tone even as you feel yourself getting defensive. “I’ve been working for years and this is the first time I’ve gotten to be on a panel like this, even though I have to deal with this stuff all the time. They could probably have more sessions about it, in my opinion.”\n\nSchuyler looks sheepish. “Yeah, I get you,” he says, even though you know he probably doesn’t. You move on to the next subject: figuring out where to get attendee bags with your name tags and welcome packets, where the first panel is, where the coffee stations are at.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Start the conference', 'Remind him of that.', 'hotel', 0)">Start the conference</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">The team is buzzing and you can tell Rhys is thrilled he hit on something. Even Dylan is pleased for Rhys, although he’s trying to hide it. \n\nIt’s hard for you to say it, but you ask.\n\n“Hey, Rhys,” you say, “Where’d you find the story?”\n\n“I know someone,” he says offhandedly, while someone else starts asking whether he could get photos and video.\n\n“No, I mean,” you interrupt, and Rhys looks back at you, clearly annoyed. “This isn’t really your community and it’s a super sensitive topic. How well do you know the source? Like, how are you getting the story?” \n\nRhys explains it’s from another writer he knows, a Native American journalist who lives in the nearby community. He reasons he could bring the story to CLIX so it would get a much bigger audience. \n\n“But,” you interject, knowing how unfair it would be to take the potential byline from this writer, “We could just get her to write it.”\n\nRhys looks like you just slapped him. The room goes quiet.\n\n“I guess we could.”\n\nDylan, sensing the tension, doesn’t miss a beat. “That makes sense. Rhys, could you see me in my office after? We can talk about the logistics. Next story idea?” \n\nYou sit in awkward silence as the meeting files out. Rhys doesn’t say anything else and doesn’t look at you on the way out. You understand.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Head to your desk.', 'Press Rhys on his “exclusive access.”', 'newsroom', 0)">Head to your desk.</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="text long">After your response, the audience applause sounds tepid but you aren’t sure if that’s in your own head.\n\nThe panel wraps and the room empties. You’re exhausted and glad it’s over. You get up and go find Carla, Ari and Schuyler outside. You can’t read the look on their faces.\n\nFinally, one of them speaks.\n\n“Well, let’s see how it goes at the office on Monday,” Ari says.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition_long('Monday: Wait for decision meeting', 'Tell them what people told you, even if you’re not sure you believe it.', 'office', 0)">Monday: Wait for decision meeting</a></b>\n\n</div>
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<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n8:00 AM\nCLIX NEWSROOM</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">This week will be interesting. Tomorrow, you’re headed to a large national journalism convention in a different city. The conference asked you to appear on the diversity panel, and CLIX approved it. \n\nAt first, you were excited. Then you were pulled into a laborious two-hour meeting on “representing the company,” which made you feel more like a PR rep than a working journalist. \n\nThis morning, you click onto the conference website and see your own photo looking back at you from the screen. Staring at it, you feel conflicted. You’re not sure whether this is a chance to prove yourself as a good spokesperson for CLIX, or a chance to sound off on some of the frustrating parts of working there to a national audience.\n\nJust then, your managing editor, Dylan, calls you into his office.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Enter Dylan\s’s office', 'Start the day', 'office', 0)">Enter Dylan’s office</a></b>\n\n</div>
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>FRIDAY\n9:00 AM\nHOTEL</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">The conference passes in a blur of coffee, meetings, panels, tweets, notes. The entire time, you’re nervous about your panel appearance. Before you know it, the last day has arrived.\n\nYou’re scheduled to spend an hour this morning in prep with other panel participants. Here, you’ll meet the moderator and the other participants, get a sense of the questions that are coming, and get a chance to fix your appearance before you go onstage.\n\nThat morning, you all meet at breakfast at the hotel. The team is supportive and they’re all attending your panel later — even Schuyler. \n\nCarla, who is in charge of the company’s social media snaps, wants to take a photo for Instagram with all your conference passes lined up at the hotel, so you hand them over. The rest of you wanted to buy souvenirs near the conference center, but Carla’s phone battery dies and she needs to charge it for a while to get the shot. Feeling rushed and annoyed, she says she’ll meet you by the conference center entrance with your passes later and instructs you to go ahead without her.\n\n<hr><b>> <a onclick="transition('Leave without Carla.', 'Start the conference', 'lobby', 0)">Leave without Carla.</a></b>\n\n</div>\n\n
<div class="setting-container">\n<div class="icons">📅\n🕗\n📍</div>\n<div class="setting"><b>MONDAY\n1:00 PM\nCLIX NEWSROOM</b></div>\n</div>\n<div class="text">After the meeting, you’re getting through your workday when you get an email from your colleagues who will also be traveling to the conference. \n\n<div id="email"><div id="email-subj">Preflight?</div><div style="display:flex;"><div id="email-icon"><span class="material-icons" style="font-size:40px;">account_circle</span></div><div id="email-cont"><div id="email-sender"><b>carla@clix.com</b></div><div id="email-recp">Me, schuyler@clix.com, ari@clix.com<span class="material-icons" style="vertical-align:bottom; font-size:20px;">arrow_drop_down</span></div><div id="email-message">Hey all! Our flight's at 3 tomorrow! Want to get together at 12 for lunch?<br><br>We can wrap up by 1, be at the airport for 2, 2:15, just enough time to catch the flight and means we won't be hanging around with nothing to do.<br><br>Whaddya say?<br><br>- C.</div></div></div></div>\nYour stomach drops. \n\nYou know Carla means well, but the way she’s planning the schedule, you’ll make it to the airport with only about 45 minutes to check in. \n\nYou hate getting there that late because you’re often held for extra screening at security, and in a week like this, you don’t want to miss the flight. You'd have to rebook another free ticket, or pay out of pocket to get another one in time for the conference.\n\nAri and Schuyler reply while you’re thinking. They’re in. \n\nDammit. Ari is brilliant at newsroom intel — if anyone can tell you more about who else is up for the managing editor position and if you really stand a chance, it’s them. That’s an edge you could really use.\n\n<hr><b>></b> You tell yourself you're overthinking. It'll be fine. <b><a onclick="transition_long('Accept the invitation.', 'Head to your desk.', 'airport',-1)">Accept the invitation.</a></b>\n<b>></b> You’ll catch up with Ari sometime at the conference. <b><a onclick="transition_long('Skip it.', 'Head to your desk.', 'airport', 1)">Skip it.</a></b>\n\n</div>
<button id="sidebar-btn" onclick="expand_sidebar(this)"><div style="text-align: right;margin-right: 1em;">Credits & Game Options</div><span class="material-icons">expand_more</span></button><div class="sidebar-collapsible"><div><u>Game Options</u></div><div><a onclick="rewind()">Rewind</a></div><div><a onclick="bookmark()">Save</a></div><div><a onclick="restartGame()">Restart</a></div><div><u>Credits</u></div><div>Produced by: <a href="https://studyhall.xyz/">Study Hall</a></div><div>Written by: Farahnaz Mohammed</div><div>Edited by: Erin Schwartz</div><div>Game design by: <a href="http://marytruong.com/">Mary Truong</a></div><div>Special thanks to: Ted Han, Shelbi Polk, Aaricka Washington, Ali Van Houten, Kate Sender</div><div class="attributions">Videos by <a href="https://vimeo.com/272092316">Peter Fristedt</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/32440817">Matt Devir</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/116050270">David Hoffman</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/55673123">Luca Lagò</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonconventioncenter/34066458570/">Jeremy Jeziorski</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Video_of_a_fluorescent_office_lamp.webm">Erik Pålsson</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT707xX4UiM">GreenLight Stock Footage</a>. All videos are available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons CC BY 3.0</a> license. This story was made with <a href="http://twinery.org/">Twine</a> and is powered by <a href="http://tiddlywiki.com">TiddlyWiki</a>.\n</div><div><u>Resources</u></div><div><a href="https://jocresources.com/">Resources for Journalists of Color</a></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uk0LrP2iM22rY39quqJZBZOstFNAGirJd5KH9hjRAKo/edit?usp=sharing">Guidelines for Inclusive Journalism</a></div></div>
<div class="text long">You say you don’t need a specific example to see that the problem is deep-rooted and then deploy your studied examples of newsroom bias, ending with a call to action for more diversity initiatives. It’s dry, but smooth, and the next panelist picks up where you left off.\n\n<hr><b>> [[Next question]]</b>\n\n</div>\n\n
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