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The 1998
industrywide survey on employment of women and minorities
by U.S. daily newspapers found:
Eighteen percent of employees are minorities with slightly
more men than women, at 10% and 8%, respectively.
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%.
Minorities represent 11% of executives and managers overall.
Minorities represent 7.7% of news executives, an increase
of 0.3% from 1995.
Women represent 43% of newspaper employees overall and 35%
of executives and managers.
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.
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).
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 decreased in 2000 from 11.85% to 11.64%,
the first decline in the 23 years of the survey. The percentage
of minority supervisors, however, remained about the same at
9%. Of the 950 newspapers participating in the survey, 422or
44%report no minority staffers, up five percentage points from
last year. Other detailed findings of the 2001 newsroom employment
survey include:
The percentages of Asian Americans, Hispanics, African Americans
and Native Americans in newsrooms all declined slightly in 2000.
The percentage of minority interns (29%) declined.
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.
Exacerbating this, the major loss of minorities in 2001 came
from newspapers with 5,000 to 50,000 circulation.
The percentage of women in newsrooms remained at 37% last
year. Interestingly, these figures are pretty close for both
large and small newspapers. Women represent 34% of all newsroom
supervisors, the same as last year.
Women on newspaper staffs increased by 186, with 14.28% of
these minorities.
The minority retention rate plunged from 96% last year to
90% this year. |
