Newsroom Diversity: An Online Paradigm Shift

Newsroom Diversity: An Online Paradigm Shift: While the long-predicted downturn among U.S. news publications is taking its toll on journalists everywhere, minorities in the news industry are impacted more than most. Total newsroom employment at daily newspapers declined 2.4 percent in 2011 while the loss in newsroom positions among minorities was 5.7 percent, according to a recently released census by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and the Center for Advanced Social Research at the Missouri School of Journalism.

ASNE has conducted its Newsroom Employment Census of professional full-time journalists since 1978. Despite this year’s loss in newsroom positions, the decline in jobs that began in 2006-07 appears to be stabilizing, according to the census report.