An increase in both the number and percentage of journalists of color working at daily newspapers under 75,000 circulation. This particular program was a recommendation to the partnership steering committee from a larger group that included the APME Diversity Committee and ASNE Diversity and Small Newspaper Committees.
Smaller newspapers provide critical all-around career grounding for most journalists.
Some 90 percent of the nation s 1,449 daily newspapers are under 75,000 circulation. Yet some 40 percent of newspapers of this size have no journalists of color. One goal of this program is to level the playing fields for smaller newspapers to compete with larger newspapers for talent and to allow journalists of color to make employment decisions based on what will be best for their long-term career, rather than only on the larger salary a larger newspaper usually can offer initially. In Fall 2000. By The Freedom Forum.