Institutions the world over are examining their positions on race and how they treat people of color. In the U.S.—and clearly in the U.K. after this week’s rejection of claims of bigotry by The Society of Editors—media companies are in varying degrees of denial. 

Improving the long-running, older power structures takes time. Voices calling for change have to be persistent, loud and clear.

Gabe Schneider, 24-year-old editor of The Objective, a Substack-based collective of young writers covering the shortcomings of American journalism, is still waiting for media companies’ reckoning. Gabe spoke with Scott Nover about the color-blind spots in media coverage.

“There’s politics that go on at the Washington Post, whether or not the Post wants to acknowledge it. There’s politics that go on in every newsroom. Everyone has their own opinions and biases. And that’s something that we don’t get enough discussion of when I see a lot of media reporting.”

Check out Scott's piece here.

Elsewhere, Google is not taking a break. Now it’s expanding the use of publisher-provided identifiers (PPIDs), previously reserved for traditional and automated direct deals, for programmatic campaigns on the open auction.

Check out this piece from Ethan Wu on the details. 

Publishers tell me they are worried about the capacity for growth on the open exchange once cookies disappear. More Google-owned products facilitating transactions don’t exactly allay those concerns.

On that note, stay tuned for the results of our pulse-taking survey this week on the outcome of Google’s confirmation it will not support email-based identifiers in its tech stack. My colleague Ronan Shields will share the findings.  

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