
Editor’s office: How do minorities feel about their place in the news media in the time of a great contraction.
Explore with me the changing environment for minorities in media.
Great strides had been made in the growth of minority representation in traditional newsrooms before the Great Recession reversed those gains across all races. The environment that remains has seen considerable change from the days when the industry self-imposed measures to increase diversity.Read what the media watchers at Poynter have to say about staffing in newspaper newsrooms.