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Sharon Rosenhause: A passion for diversity
10.10.06
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At the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the efforts of Sharon Rosenhause, who won the McGruder Diversity Leadership Award in the over-75,000 circulation category, have helped increase the percentage of minority newsroom employees from 19% to more than 29%.
Managing Editor Rosenhause, who attends many conventions and events sponsored by minority journalists' organizations, "has created programs in the newsroom ranging from mentoring to specialized training for minorities who have demonstrated an ability to lead and assume additional responsibilities," Earl Maucker, Sun-Sentinel editor, wrote in his nomination.
Rosenhause's contributions have extended well beyond the Sun-Sentinel.
"Sharon's accomplishments at the Sun-Sentinel alone would justify her selection," said Saundra Keyes, a 2005 winner and professor at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno. "But I know many judges felt, as I did, that this is also a lifetime achievement award. Sharon has been a newsroom leader in some of the most diverse communities in the country, and she has consistently worked to ensure that both her staffs and the coverage they produce reflect those communities."
Rosenhause has been chair of ASNE's Diversity Committee and a member of the advisory board of the Race and Diversity Workshop at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She hosted an ASNE Diversity Leadership Institute and proposed and found funding for a Florida Society of Newspaper Editors' multimedia scholarship for diverse college students.
"Sharon's commitment to diversity and her goals as an editor have always been the same: to develop the best, most diverse staff possible, and to produce the best content possible, always reflecting the diversity of the community she covers," said David Zeeck, president of ASNE and executive editor of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. "To Sharon, it's never been solely about a diverse staff. To her, it's ultimately about diverse content and a commitment to excellence. "Her passion for diversity, her unfailing good humor and her unwillingness to accept less than the best are reflections of Bob McGruder's legacy: better newsrooms producing better journalism," Zeeck said.
looks like a candidate for Abb’s list!
Sun Sentinel is well known for having zero high profile Blacks. With this toadish looking woman my guess is feminazi and gay style diversity was her forte
Actually, it looks like she opened a few eyes to how "diversity" generally works in practice - simple bigotry, frosted with a layer of toxic self-righteousness.
I’m so upset I can’t write...
Well of course not. Everything in libspeak means its opposite -- "tolerance" is anything but, and the same holds true with "diversity."
And one wonders how long the "queens" will remain female...
Look at that woman - her eyes are dead.
I despise the SS and virtually everything about it and everybody associated with it. Still, I hope this is an indication that Howard Greenburg might be trying to give us a good, honest local paper that reports the news rather than bleating endlessly about “human interst” stories, most of which are about homosexuals and ethnic minorities. I’m really glad this dried up old hag is gone.