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Chasing Newsroom Diversity - From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action (Paperback)
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Chasing Newsroom Diversity - From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action (Paperback)
Series: The History of Media and Communication
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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, 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. Drawing upon
exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, Mellinger examines
the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite
organization that arguably did more than any other during the
twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in
journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and
the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in
the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be
frustrated by structures of exclusion the organization had embedded
into its own professional standards. 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.
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