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The 1998 industrywide survey on employment of women
and minorities by U.S. daily newspapers found:
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Eighteen percent of employees are minorities with
slightly more men than women, at 10% and 8%, respectively. |
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Representation by race and ethnic group remained stable
with African Americans comprising the largest population
at 10%; Hispanics, 5%; Asian Americans, 2%; and Native Americans,
1%. |
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Minorities represent 11% of executives and managers
overall. |
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Minorities represent 7.7% of news executives, an increase
of 0.3% from 1995. |
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Women represent 43% of newspaper employees overall
and 35% of executives and managers. |
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Female employment is highest in the accounting/finance
(80%) and advertising (70%) departments; lowest in production
(19%) and information services (28%). That latter number
represents a 5% decline from 1995. |
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Minority employment increases as circulation size
increases (e.g., newspapers with circulations below 10,000
have 7% minority employment, while newspapers over 50,000
circulation have 22% minority employment). |
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Minority employment is highest in the circulation
(26%) and production (22%) departments; lowest in the news/editorial
(12%) and new media/online (13%) departments. |
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| The latest American Society
of Newspaper Editors' annual survey shows that the percentage
of minority journalists in the newsrooms of daily newspapers rose
in 1999 from 11.55 to 11.85%, the largest percentage increase
since 1995. The percentage of minority supervisors, however, remained
about the same at 9%. Of the 953 newspapers participating in the
survey, 368–or 39%–report no minority staffers, down
three percentage points from two years ago. |
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To try to spur progress in these areas, the ASNE
Board has adopted the following benchmarks for 2001:
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Overall minority employment 13.5% |
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Minority supervisors 11% |
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Papers with no minorities 350 |
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Other detailed findings of the 2000 newsroom employment
survey include:
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While the percentages of Asian Americans, Hispanics
and Native Americans in newsrooms rose in 1999, the percentage
of blacks fell slightly. |
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The percentage of minority interns (31%) rose slightly
while the percentage of first-time minority hires fell one
percentage point to 18%. |
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Nearly two-thirds of all minority journalists work
at newspapers with circulations exceeding 100,000, emphasizing
the need for more minority journalists at smaller-sized
papers. |
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The percentage of women in newsrooms rose to 37%
last year. Interestingly, these figures are pretty close
for both large and small newspapers. Women represent 34%
of all newsroom supervisors, about the same as last year
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