Chasing newsroom diversity : from Jim Crow to affirmative action /
Social change triggered by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s sent the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on a fifty-year mission to dismantle an exclusionary professional standard that envisioned the ideal journalist as white, straight, and male. In this book, the author explores the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | History of communication.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt2ttd4z |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the black and white of newspapers
- Manning the barricade : maintaining the white prerogative in the face of change, 1954-1967
- Seeking justice in a climate of irony : the hiring initiative's uneasy prelude, 1968-1976
- "A sensitive and difficult task" : establishing a framework for newsroom integration, 1977-1989
- The gay Nineties : reimagining and renegotiating a multicultural newsroom
- Diversity in crisis : ASNE's time of reckoning, 1998-2002
- Afterword : closing a chapter of newspaper history.