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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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Autor principal: Mellinger, Gwyneth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.