Associated Press to Drop Its 26-Year-Old Internship Program
Despite the pleas of UNITY: Journalists of Color, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Native American Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press has decided not to bring back its 26-year old internship program. AP chief executive officer Tom Curley confirmed to UNITY president Barbara Ciara that the program was as good as dead as of the end of 2010.
On his Journal-isms blog, Richard Prince notes that the program began primarily as a way to increase the pool of minority journalists.
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