TV Newsroom Management Diversity Survey

According to a 2010 survey, the National Association of Black Journalists believes more diverse newsrooms lead to better coverage of African American communities and more opportunities for jobs and promotions for members.

Many television stations employ a diverse staff of reporters and anchors and some of the stations meet or exceed the demographics of their respective communities. But the third annual report on the diversity of the management teams that run 151 of those stations finds most still have a long way to go to reflect the communities they serve. People of color comprise approximately one-third of the United States population but only 12.6 percent of all managers in these newsrooms. 82 of the stations have no diversity at all on their news management teams.

For the third straight year, NBC television stations most closely reflected the diversity of the nation with people of color comprising 24.2 percent of all newsroom managers. That includes two African American general managers, two African American news directors and a Hispanic assistant news director.