ONLINE RESOURCES
ASNE Diversity Resources
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=1
Diversity resources from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
American Women in Radio and Television
http://www.awrt.org
AWRT is dedicated to advancing the impact of women in electronic media and related fields.
Asian American Journalists Association
http://www.aaja.org
AAJA was formed in 1981 to provide support for Asian American journalists.
DiversityInc.comhttp://www.diversityinc.com/
DiversityInc.com offers information on how diversity affects companies' relationships with their employees, suppliers, customers and investors.
DiversityWeb http://www.diversityweb.org/
The Association of American Colleges and Universities and the University of Maryland at College Park designed DiversityWeb.
Do We Check It At The Door? http://www.namme.org/career/publications/report_checkit.pdf
By Keith Woods, 2002.
A McCormick Fellowship Initiative report.
FCC Diversity Resource Directory
http://www.fcc.gov/DiversityFAC/directory.html
The Forum on Media Diversity
http://www.masscommunicating.lsu.edu/
LSU's Manship School of Mass Communications and the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs.
Freedom Forum: Newsroom Diversity
http://www.freedomforum.org/diversity/default.asp
Links to news, commentary and analysis.
Good Ideas in Newspaper Diversity
http://www.freedomforum.org/
templates/document.asp?documentID=17649
Freedom Forum Report, 2003.
International Women's Media Foundation
http://www.iwmf.org/
IWMF was founded to strengthen the role of women in the media.
Journalism and Women Symposium
http://www.jaws.org/
JAWS supports the personal growth and professional empowerment of women in newsrooms.
Kerner Plus 40 Report
DeWayne Wickham and Tukufu Zubert, editors, 2008.
Leading the Way: Making Diversity Real
http://www.namme.org/career/publications/report_leading.pdf
By Keith Woods, 2004.
A McCormick Fellowship Initiative report.
Maynard Institute
http://www.maynardije.org/
The Institute is dedicated to increasing racial and ethnic diversity in news coverage, staffing and business operations.
National Association of Black Journalists
http://www.nabj.org
NABJ was founded with the purpose of promoting and communicating the importance of diversity in newsrooms.
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
http://www.nahj.org/
NAHJ is dedicated to the recognition and professional advancement of Hispanics in the news industry.
National Association of Minority Media Executives
http://www.namme.org/
NAMME is an organization for media managers and executives of color working in newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable and new media.
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
http://www.namic.com/
NAMIC educates, advocates and empowers for the cause of diversity in the telecommunications industry.
A national collaboration of ethnic news organizations.
News in New Americahttp://www.knightfoundation.org/research_publications/detail.dot?id=178203
This report addresses the diversity of American news coverage and newsrooms.
Sally Lehrman, Knight Foundation, January 2006. (
PDF file)
News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
http://www.newsu.org/
http://www.patriciaebauer.com/
News and commentary on disability issues.
Poynter Online's Ethics & Diversity Resourceshttp://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=5
A broad range of articles and source materials about diversity from the Poynter Institute.
Poynter Online's Diversity Tip Sheets
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31886
Journalism tips you can use.
Poynter Online's "Diversity at Work" Blog
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58
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Aldrich, Leigh Stephens. Covering the Community:
A Diversity Handbook for Media.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1999.
Biagi, Shirley and Marilyn Kern-Foxworth.
Facing Difference: Race, Gender, and Mass Media.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997.
Bradley, Patricia and Gail Collins.
Women and the Press: the Struggle for Equality.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005.
Broussard, Jinx Coleman. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless:
Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists.
New York: Routledge, 2004.
Campbell, Christopher P. Race, Myth, and the News.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.
Chambers, Deborah, Linda Steiner and Carole Fleming.
Women and Journalism.
New York: Routledge, 2004.
Chideya, Farai. The Color of Our Future.
New York: William Morrow, 1999.
Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind:
Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World.
Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997.
Coward, John M. The Newspaper Indian:
Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-1890.
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Cropp, Fritz, Cynthia M. Frisby and Dean Mills.
Journalism Across Cultures.
Ames: Iowa States Press, 2003.
Curry, George E., ed. The Affirmative Action Debate.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.
Danky, James Philip and Maureen E. Hady, eds.
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals:
A National Bibliography.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Dawkins, Wayne. Black Journalists: The NABJ Story.
Merrillville, IN: August Press, 1997.
----. Rugged Waters.
Newport News, VA: August Press, 2003.
Dennis, Everette E. and Edward C. Pease, eds.
The Media in Black and White.
Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Books, 1997.
Dijk, Teun Adrianus Van. Racism and the Press.
New York: Routledge, 1991.
Dines, Gail and Jean M. Humez.
Gender, Race, and Class in Media, 2nd ed.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.
Gutierrez, Felix, Clint Wilson and Lena Chao.
Racism, Sexism, and the Media: The Rise of
Class Communication in Multicultural America.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
Halper, Donna L. Invisible Stars:
A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
Hill, George H. and Lorraine Raglin.
Black Women in Television: An Illustrated History and Bibliography.
New York: Garland, 1990.
Hosley, David H. Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Kamalipour, Yahya R. and Theresa Carilli, eds.
Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media.
Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1998.
Keever, Bevery Ann Deepe, et al., eds.
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Keith, Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westpost, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995.
Lont, Cynthia M. Women and Media: Content, Careers, Criticism.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994.
McGowan, William. Coloring the News.
San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001.
Mansfield-Richardson, Virginia. Asian Americans and the Mass Media.
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
Maynard, Robert C. and Dori J. Maynard. Letters to My Children.
Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1995.
Miller, Sally M. The Ethnic Press in the United States.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Morgan, Arlene Notoro, Keith Woods and Alice Irene Pifer.
The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Reed, Barbara Straus. Outsiders in 19th-Century Press History:
Multicultural Prespectives.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1995.
Riggins, Stephen Harold, ed. Ethnic Minority Media:
An International Perspective.
Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992.
Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat:
the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.
New York: Knopf, 2006.
Robertson, Nan. The Girls in the Balcony:
Women, Men, and the New York Times.
New York: Random House, 1992.
Rodriguez, America. Making Latino News: Race, Language, Class.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1999.
Simmons, Charles A. The African American Press.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1998.
Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice:
African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History.
Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1994.
Terry, Wallace. Missing Pages: Black Journalists
of Modern America: An Oral History.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007.
Thomas, David A. and John J. Gabarro. Breaking Through:
The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
Tilove, Jonathan and Michael Falco.
Along Martin Luther King.
New York: Random House, 2003.
Toth, Elizabeth L. and Linda Aldorry, eds.
The Gender Challenge to Media: Diverse Voices from the Field.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001.
Trahant, Mark N. Pictures of Our Nobler Selves:
A History of Native American Contributions to News Media.
Nashville, TN: The Freedom Forum, 1995.
Van Dijk, Teun A. Racism and the Press.
New York: Routledge, 1991.
Veciana-Suarez, Ana. Hispanic Media: Impact and Influence.
Washington: Media Institute, 1990.
Waller, Linda, ed. Newspapers, Diversity and You.
Princeton, NJ: The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, 1998.
Washburn, Patrick Scott.
The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Weston, Mary Ann. Native Americans in the News:
Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
Wickham, DeWayne. Thinking Black: Some of the
Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Minds.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996.
Wolseley, Roland E. Black Achievers in American Journalism.
Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing, 1995.
----. The Black Press, U.S.A.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Woods, Keith. Do We Check it at the Door?
Chicago: McCormick Tribune Foundation, 2002.
----. Executives of Color: What it Takes to Succeed.
Chicago: McCormick Tribune Foundation, 2003.
----. Leading the Way: Making Diversity Real.
Chicago: McCormick Tribune Foundation, 2004.