Pew
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet is “part of a small minority at U.S. news outlets,” Monica Anderson writes for Pew. “[I]n newspaper newsrooms, the percentage of overall staffers and supervisors who are black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American or multiracial has remained virtually unchanged in the past two decades.” Anderson uses data from the American Society of News Editors census to chart that stagnation:
The percentage of minority journalists in newspaper newsrooms edged up by a miserable .05 percentage points in 2012, even as absolute numbers fell by 300 positions. The decline counts as stagnation because minority journalists lost newspaper jobs at about the same rate as journalists overall.
