| Description |
1 online resource (x, 236 pages) |
| Series |
History of Communication |
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History of communication.
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| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Minority journalists -- United States
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African Americans in the newspaper industry.
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Minorities in journalism -- United States
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American newspapers -- History -- 20th century
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Diversity in the workplace -- United States
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Minorities -- Employment -- United States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
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African Americans in the newspaper industry
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American newspapers
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Diversity in the workplace
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Minorities -- Employment
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Minorities in journalism
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Minority journalists
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012017777 |
| ISBN |
0252094646 |
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9780252094644 |
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