Percentage Of Minority Journalists Moves Up Less Than 0.5%

PERCENTAGE OF MINORITY JOURNALISTS MOVES UP LES THAN 0.5%
[SOURCE: Editor&Publisher, AUTHOR: Mark Fitzgerald]
Journalists of color represented only 13.87% of the staff in America's daily newsrooms in 2005, according to the American Society of Newspaper Editors' (ASNE) 29th annual newsroom census released Tuesday. That percentage represented a nearly invisible increase from last year's census, which identified 13.42% of daily journalists as belonging to racial and ethnic minority groups. About one-quarter of U.S. daily newspapers do not employ a single minority journalist. This year, 377 newspapers reported no minority newsroom employees. The results show daily newspapers are lagging badly in the goal adopted by ASNE of achieving a parity by 2025 between the percentage of minority journalists working in daily newsrooms, and the percentage of people of color in the U.S. general population. About one-third of the U.S. population is comprised of people from racial or ethnic minority groups.
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