Britne Jenke argues newsrooms need more disabled people, veterans, and caregivers to improve journalism's accessibility. Caregivers often face the same challenges as disabled people, like back injuries and anxiety, but don't always identify that way.
Everyone in journalism should be learning it, should be doing it, and that would be a measure of success. More, more disabled people in the newsroom, more veterans, more caregivers, because caregivers always get left out even though they have high rates of back injury, depression, anxiety. Maybe they don't call themselves disabled or chronically ill, but they show all the same. People call themselves different things. They're disabled. And so If we put those people at the table, we're gonna see different results. We're gonna see more accessibility in journalism. Absolutely.
