Chasing Newsroom Diversity

From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7499205
AutoresGwyneth Mellinger (0000-0002-9631-7314, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Páginas236
Data de publicação2013-03-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoChasing newsroom diversity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252037382.001.0001
OpenAlexW2251167490
Open LibraryOL25316864M
ISBN9780252037382
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15

This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, the book examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be frustrated by structures of exclusion that the organization had embedded into its own professional standards. Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, the book expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy

Democracy · Diversity (politics · Elite · Government (linguistics · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Population · Public relations · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · 20th century · African Americans in the newspaper industry · American newspapers · Diversity in the workplace · Employment · History · Journalists · Minorities · Minorities in journalism · Minorities, employment · Minority journalists · united states · Law