A continuing failure to diversify media

Almost 50 years after the Kerner Commission concluded that one cause of urban unrest was the lack of racial diversity in American newsrooms, Alex T. Williams writes that not much has changed: "Comparing the 2013 job placement rates, graduating minorities that specialized in print were 17 percentage points less likely to find a full-time job than non-minorities; minorities specializing in broadcasting were 17 percentage points less likely to find a full-time job."

July 29, 2015

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