Chasing newsroom diversity : from Jim Crow to affirmative action / Gwyneth Mellinger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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 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, this book expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy. -- Publisher's description.

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