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A Lack of Newsroom Diversity Can Sink a Daily Newspaper

Two years ago, the top editors at the Washington Post were warned in a memo that they needed to expand newsroom diversity "or suffer the consequences." Although journalists of color comprise about 24 percent of the Post ’s newsroom, comfortably above the ASNE census average of roughly 13 percent in recent years, minorities make up 43 percent of the Post 's circulation area, and a large part of the region is edging toward "majority minority" status. Click here to read more.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity