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The latest
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 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
- Representation
by race and ethnic group remained stable with African Americans
comprising the largest population at 10 percent; Hispanics,
5 percent; Asian Americans, 2 percent and Native Americans,
1 percent.
- Minorities
represent 11 percent of executives and managers overall.
- Minorities
represent 7.7 percent of news executives, an increase of 0.3
percent from 1995.
- Women represent
43 percent of newspaper employees overall and 35 percent of
executives and managers.
- Female
employment is highest in the accounting/finance (80 percent)
and advertising (70 percent) departments; lowest in production
(19 percent) and information services (28 percent). That latter
number represents a 5 percent decline from 1995.
- Minority
employment increases as circulation size increases (e.g., newspapers
with circulations below 10,000 have 7 percent minority employment,
while newspapers over 50,000 circulation have 22 percent minority
employment).
- Minority
employment is highest in the circulation (26 percent) and production
(22 percent) departments; lowest in the news/editorial (12 percent)
and new media/online (13 percent) departments.
The latest
American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual survey shows that
the percentage of minority journalists in the newsrooms of daily
newspapers increased in 2001 from 11.64 percent to 12.07 percent.
The number of minorities totaled 6,567, with 447 hires and 443
departures. The percentage of minority supervisors rose slightly
to near 10 percent. Of the 956 newspapers participating in the
survey, 431-or 45 percent-report no minority staffers, up one
percentage point from last year. Other detailed findings of the
2002 newsroom employment survey include:
- The percentages
of Asian Americans, Hispanics, African Americans and Native
Americans in newsrooms all rose slightly in 2001.
- The percentage
of minority interns (31 percent) increased.
- 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.
- The percentage
of women in newsrooms remained at 37 percent last year. Interestingly,
these figures are pretty close for both large and small newspapers.
Women represent 34 percent of all newsroom supervisors, the
same as last year.
- Of the
20,161 women, 14.83 percent are minorities.
- The minority
retention rate rose from 90 percent last year to 93 percent
this year.
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