Title: Chasing newsroom diversity
Description: "Social change triggered by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s sent the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on a fifty-year mission to dismantle an exclusionary professional standard that envisioned the ideal journalist as white, straight, and male. In this book, Gwyneth Mellinger explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. ... Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, Chasing Newsroom Diversity expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy."--Publisher description.
Subjects: African Americans in the newspaper industry, American newspapers, Minority journalists, Minorities, Minorities in journalism, Diversity in the workplace, Employment, History, Journalists, united states, Journalism, united states, American newspapers, history, Minorities, employment, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century