Article
Ducking the Diversity Issue: Newspapers’ Real Failure Is Performance
NewspaperResearch Journal
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Publication Date
7-1-1990
Disciplines
Abstract
Perhaps we've paid too much attention to issues of hiring minorities and diversifying newsrooms, avoiding the tougher questions of content, coverage and newspapers' role in a pluralistic society. After each annual newsroom nose-count is completed, where do newspapers stand on issues of performance?
Citation Information
Edward C. Pease. “Ducking the Diversity Issue: Newspapers’ Real Failure Is Performance.”
Newspaper Research Journal, 11 (3): 24-37 (Summer 1990).
Originally Published by the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Newspaper Research Journal.
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