With ASNE Diversity Numbers Again 'Dismal,' Minority Orgs Shift Strategy

In a significant change in strategy on newsroom diversity, the leaders of the principal organizations of minority journalists on Sunday declared the newspaper industry's goal of parity by 2025 dead, and declared they would concentrate their efforts on getting journalists of color into senior management. In a conference call as the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) prepared to release its annual census of the ethnic and racial diversity of daily newspaper newsroom, the presidents of the associations of black, Hispanic, Asian American, and Native Americans, plus their umbrella Unity organization, unanimously agreed that there is no way the industry will employ journalists of color in the proportion as the communities they serve by 2025 at the rate it is going now. Daily newspapers employ about 300 fewer journalists of color than they did this time last year.
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