A Charlottesville newspaper asked community leaders what their hopes for the future were. Everyone interviewed was white.

C-Ville Weeky Editor Laura Longhine has issued a mea culpa for this week’s story that asked community leaders about their hopes for Charlottesville’s future. Everyone interviewed was white.

“Since publication, some readers have rightly called out the fact that none of the respondents in this piece are people of color, and that there are far more men than women represented.

While we reached out to a diverse range of sources, many did not respond to our repeated requests (or said they would get back to us, but didn’t). In a shortened production week due to the holidays, I didn’t notice how skewed the group we ended up with was until it was too late.

While this was meant to be a fairly casual survey (unlike, for instance, our 8/12 anniversary feature), we regret that the responses don’t reflect our entire community.

As editor, I’m particularly sorry to have made such a careless mistake, which is not typical of our sourcing or our work in general, as I would hope any regular readers…