Saturday, July 26, 2008

'Whiteness at the Top' By Richard Prince of The Maynard Intitute - Update On Diversity In The Workplace of Major News Stations



Richard Prince gives an update on diversity in the workplace of major news oranizations and news stations.
~LT

Whiteness at the Top
July 25, 2008
CBS Lags in Diversity Survey of Station Management

"At a time when the news media are "being forced to concentrate on issues of race for the first time since the late 1960s," a survey of news managers at the 61 network-owned television stations found a dearth of people of color, with almost no diversity in the uppermost tier, the National Association of Black Journalists, which conducted the study, reported on Friday.

"The study, conducted during the last ten months, found that only 16.6% of the managers at stations owned and operated by ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are people of color, and more than a third of the stations have no people of color at all in the managerial ranks," it said.

Full article at: www.mije.org

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