ASNE Study Finds Decline In Newsroom Diversity Continues
The ranks of people of color employed by U.S. newspapers declined for the third year in a row last year, according to an American Society of Newspaper Editors survey released today.
ASNE’s survey found that people of color accounted for 12.79 percent of full-time newspaper employees last year, down .47 percent from 2009. Of the 1,389 newspapers surveyed, 441 employed no people of color at all in the newsroom.
This decline has occurred as the audience the newspapers serve has become more diverse.
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