Posted on 10/14/2021 11:53:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a year after George Floyd’s killing focused attention on efforts to diversify newsrooms, the ability to measure real progress is proving elusive.
The News Leaders Association, a journalism trade group, extended the deadline for responses to its survey about employment practices at news organizations for two months, after expressing disappointment about how few are willing to reveal the diversity of their staffs.
The group hopes for as much participation from an estimated 5,900 newsrooms across the country as possible but has had fewer than 250 responses, said Meredith Clark, a Northeastern University professor who is running the survey.
“As a researcher and a journalist, I am deeply discouraged that the journalism industry isn’t as transparent about its workforce in the way that it expects other industries to be transparent about theirs,” Clark said.
The New York Times said earlier this year that the percentage of non-white staff members had increased from 27% in 2015 to 34% last year. At the Times, Washington Post and USA Today, a majority of the newsroom staff are women.
The AP reported that 76% of its full-time news employees in the United States are white, 8% are Latino, 7% are Black and 6% are Asian. News management is 81% white.
Hiring minorities is important, but so is keeping them, said Doris Truong, director of training and diversity at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank. The news industry is seeing a generational shift among young staff members less willing to wait for attitudes to change, she said.
“There is a pipeline problem,” said Robert Hernandez, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “We are producing diverse students. The reality is they’re not being hired, they’re not being retained, they’re not being promoted.”
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“News management is 81% white.”
Why haven’t those people relinquished their executive positions and high salaries to BIPOCs?
So the Ministry of Propaganda has a less diverse environment than the rest of the country.........
They don’t even try to look like they’re fair.
Our little Democrat rag just hired a new columnist.
The former Democrat governor.
His first column was about how bad Republicans are.
Well, there’s no diversity of thought so they can start there.
Yesss show the rest of us how it’s DONE
And while you’re at it
Buy a home in the Ghetto Cheap land, bring commerce to the poor, and most importantly DIVERSIFY
That includes the SKOOLS too
“News management is 81% white.”
News employees are 100% crackpot liberals, which is more of a problem.
We are producing diverse students. The reality is they’re not being hired, they’re not being retained, they’re not being promoted.”
Maybe they just ain’t qualified? If they’re being affirmative action’d into USC and other racist, pandering skools, then what makes this affirmative action Jackson think they can succeed in the real world
Even markets and merit even things out. If they aren’t being retained, they there are not up to the task, either in the own minds by quitting, or in management’s by termination
BTW a disproportionate number of “reporters” we see from articles posted from this site have minority names and/or are minorities looking at their pics/bios
Young skulls full of mush Practically all brainwashed no life experienced left wingers And that is not “journalists” It’s punk propagandists, useless idiots
Right you are. There is ZERO diversity on liberal crackpotism in the press.
Do homosexuals count as a minority?
The white lefty news folks need to prove their commitment to “climate change” by taking their carbon footprint to zero.
That would kill two birds with one stone!
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