Research Catalog

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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Description

x, 236 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.; 23 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

History of communication

Uniform Title

• History of communication.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• African Americans in the newspaper industry
• American newspapers > History > 20th century
• Diversity in the workplace > United States
• Minorities > Employment > United States
• Minorities in journalism > United States
• Minority journalists > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the black and white of newspapers -- Manning the barricade: maintaining the white prerogative in the face of change, 1954-67 -- Seeking justice in a climate of irony: the hiring initiative's uneasy prelude, 1968-76 -- "A sensitive and difficult task": establishing a framework for newsroom integration, 1977-89 -- 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.

ISBN

• 9780252037382 (cloth)
• 0252037383 (cloth)
• 9780252078941 (pbk.)
• 0252078942 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012017777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library