Des Freedman, ed., Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian

wonders if workplace romances hadn’t evolved in those 18-plus years between the beginning of the paragraph and the end. However, to be fair, a strictly chronological reconstruction of trends and developments in the newsroom could be boring and not nearly as enlightening. Mari early and often raises the lack of diversity in the American newsroom. He defines the newsroom “as an active place of social construction of roles, norms, and practices” and yet they were hostile to women and openly racist. He notes progress was made by the 1950s and 1960s, especially concerning Black journalists, and he names scholars whose research is “vital to understanding the racist legacies baked into our journalistic systems” (p. 18). Six of the nine chapters end with conclusions, which are inciteful after wading through pages of information. For example, after an informative account of technological improvements impacting the newsroom, Mari pulls the reader back for the bigger meaning of reporters who suddenly found themselves with a new tool—radios in cars—that kept them out of the newsroom but also put editors in their car. That reporters felt