A national perspective on diversity in newsrooms
I could just update the post below on minority hiring, but I don't want this data to get lost in the mix. The American Society of Newspaper Editors, meeting this week in D.C., got its annual report on minorities in newsrooms yesterday. (Yes, I'm behind. No, I'm not there. Yes, I know they tend to talk about the wrong things.)
Anyway, the headline is this: "The number of full-time journalists working at daily newspapers continues to fall while the number of minority journalists inched up nearly a half of a percentage point to 13.42 percent in 2004."
We're not alone. More detail here. How the News & Record compares with other papers around the country here.
Other commentary here, here and here.
And while I'm not there, our friend Dan Gillmor is.