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Appendix A. Draft Statement on Newsroom Diversity
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appendix a Draft Statement on Newsroom Diversity Newsroom diversity is essential to the newspaper’s responsibility in a democratic society and success in the marketplace. To accurately and sensitively cover the community, newsroom staffs must reflect society as a whole. The newsroom should be a place in which all employees contribute their full potential, regardless of their race, ethnicity, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical disability or other defining characteristic. To drive the quest for diversity and inclusion in the work place, the American Society of Newspaper Editors will: • Commit a significant portion of the Society’s energy and resources to fostering newsroom diversity. • Advocate diversity in content as a journalistic core value. • Encourage and assist all newspapers to have minority journalists [sic] representation, to increase representation of journalists of color to reach 20 percent industrywide by 2010, and to achieve parity with local communities as soon as possible. • Monitor year by year the employment of Asian Americans, blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics in the newsroom. • Encourage collaboration on diversity among various groups. ASNE Board of Directors Minutes, ASNE Archives, Reston, Va., March 31, 1998: 1416. Mellinger_Chasing text.indd 179 10/24/12 4:28 PM Mellinger_Chasing text.indd 180 10/24/12 4:28 PM ...