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Chasing newsroom diversity : from Jim Crow to affirmative action
- Title
- Chasing newsroom diversity : from Jim Crow to affirmative action / Gwyneth Mellinger.
- Author
- Mellinger, Gwyneth.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- x, 236 p., 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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, Gwyneth Mellinger explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. ... Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, Chasing Newsroom Diversity expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy."--Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- The history of communication
- Uniform Title
- History of communication.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-1138
- ISBN
- 9780252037382 (cloth)
- 0252037383 (cloth)
- 9780252078941 (pbk.)
- 0252078942 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012017777
- 40022148909
- OCLC
- 793726556
- Author
- Mellinger, Gwyneth.
- Title
- Chasing newsroom diversity : from Jim Crow to affirmative action / Gwyneth Mellinger.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
- Series
- The history of communicationHistory of communication.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022148909
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-1138JFE 13-7924