How Diverse Are DC Area Newsrooms?

The state of the newspaper industry is...

The American Society of News Editors (ASNE), in collaboration this year with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University, came out today with its annual newsroom census. The results, as you can imagine, are kind of a downer.

Some lowlights:

  • Census results revealed 32,900 journalists who are working full time, down from the previous year’s 36,700, about a 10 percent drop.
  • In this, the second year the census tracked people of color in leadership positions, their ranks have dropped by 3 percent.
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