The National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted overwhelmingly in favor of leaving Unity: Journalists for Diversity on Monday. Of the 18 board members, 13 voted to leave, two voted against, and three were not in attendance.
“It’s a bittersweet decision,” president Hugo Balta said. “The board believes in the concept of Unity but feels the organization needs to reform to meet the new challenges minority journalists are facing in an industry that is continuously changing.”
Unity, which calls itself “a strategic alliance advocating fair and accurate news coverage about people of color and LGBT issues,” now only has ties to the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and the Native American Journalists Association.