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I am including all four 'Meet the Team' pages from the Seattle TV station sites.  Is DEI truly dead?  Is it just the Seattle market?   What do you notice?  Take a close look.   Give me your conclusions and thughts!   Thanks.

https://www.kiro7.com/station/about-us/kiro-7-newsteam/

https://komonews.com/station/people

https://www.fox13seattle.com/team

https://www.king5.com/meet-the-team


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  1. AnonymousDecember 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM

    Good crews, except KING 5. They won't drop the race flag.

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  2. IDC9December 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM

    DEI is not dead, and the Seattle TV stations are a good illustration of that. There are plenty of white people, of course. But there are also a respectable number of people of color, which is great.

    KOMO and Fox 13 seem to be the least diverse. This isn't intended to be a negative, but more of an observation. Both stations have diverse presenters and reporters, but perhaps not quite as many as one might expect in a market as diverse as Seattle.

    KIRO actually struck me as being the most diverse, which is interesting as KING has long been the leader in this department. KING is certainly diverse. No doubt about it. But KING's current talent roster is fairly white. KIRO packs an admirable amount of diversity into their small team, with their new traffic anchor being the latest diverse addition.

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    1. Wayne LDecember 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM

      I was really looking at the dearth of one particular ethnicity.

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    2. IDC9December 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM

      There does seem to be a lack of Black people compared to the region's demographics.

      Asians are well represented across the board, and Fox 13 has several Hispanics/Latinos.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM

    Interesting to note that none of these stations has ever hired someone who was born in the European continent on the air or behind the scenes. After all, they could speak two or three other languages on a conversant level and they could bring a little international flavor to their newsrooms when it comes to foreign news from abroad and the impacts for that ethic community here.

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