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PDFFrom Colorlines.com:
The increasing lack of racial diversity in the U.S. media landscape is becoming a hot topic and putting pressure on policy makers to (finally) pay attention.
As the American Society of Newspaper Editors has reported, racial and ethnic minorities make up less than 13 percent of newsroom employees. Minority ownership of television stations hovers around 3 percent, while radio station ownership is at 7 percent, despite the fact that the minority population of the U.S. is roughly 28 percent.
In a open letter to network executives and editors earlier this year, Kathy Times, outgoing-president of the National Association for Black Journalists, decried this lack of diversity in the newsrooms of the top three broadcast networks, pointing out the large disparity between minority populations and their representation in news outlets. “As America inches toward a world that is more black and brown,” wrote Times, “corporations are adjusting their cultures to embrace diversity because they know it makes good business sense. But too many network executives are ignoring this reality.”
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