“There are a couple of things that need to be done in terms of getting people of color inside newsrooms, getting leaders inside police departments that are issuing the missing alerts. They need to be people of color or you just need to have really good allies in the news room to recognize, ‘Yes, we need to cover all sorts of people.'”
The experts discuss Petito’s tragic story, the signs of domestic violence that surrounded her death, and the role that social media played in fueling the frenzied interest in her case.
The show will also focus on why Petito’s story garnered so much media attention while thousands of missing persons cases involving Black, Indigenous and people of color have not.
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One Love CEO Katie Hood will also discuss the warning signs of domestic violence.
Petito and her fiancé,Brian Laundrie, were on a cross-country trip when she vanished in August.
While she had been blogging upbeat stories and videos of her so-called “van life,” police reports and witness statements allege that the trip was filled with arguments and possible domestic abuse.
Her body was later foundin Grand Teton National Park. She wasstrangled. Laundrie, who is missing, was officially named a person of interest in her disappearance on Sept. 15.
source: people.com
