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Racial discrimination high in US newspaper industry
YORK. May 5 : Despite widespread recognition of the problem. American newspapers have not done enough to recruit minorities. an Industry official said Monday, reports AP.
Dtveraity 1* right. It* good business hna It’s long over due in our business," Cathleen Black, president and chief executive of the American Newspaper Publisher* Association, told the organization * annual convention.
ddresalng the three-day meeting* opening *ea*lori, Black said the need for Increased recognition of ml norilies and women by the print media extend* to
news coverage, community relation*, readership and advertising
"Diversity is more than gender and race . . It s a celebration of the Infinite richness and variety of human experience.' she said "It s about embracing our differences not stifling them '
Later. Members of a panel discussing the Issue generally agreed that It Is up to top management lo show leadership In dealing with dis crimination in American newsrooms, and that only about half the nation's newspapers have made an effort to hire more women and minorities
"Nobody's running in the
newsroom calling people names any more, but If* still there." said Betty Winston Baye. editorial writer and columnist for The Courier-Journal of Louisville. Ky.
Jay T. Harris. Vice President of operation* for Knight-Rlddcr Inc, said he found It 'striking that so much of the progress has occurred In a few newspapers and for moat there's been none at
In those few, he said. The only thing in common Is strong leadership . . . the bottom line is that in thome places where there I* power to insist on change as a matter of business pri-
ority. change will occur." The AN PA. which represents
about 1.280 dailies and more than 7,000 weeklies tn the United States and Canada, will merge June 1 with seven other newspaper marketing, circulation and research organizations Into a new group. the Newspaper Association of American, or MAA.
The organization's "diversity action plan' calls for members to achieve minority and female 'work force parity" with the demographic makeup of their market areas by the year 2000 or sooner. The objective covers all levels Of management, with a doubling of
minority management by 1995.
The panelists also said they felt news coverage of Iasi week’s riots In Los Angeles and other cities was weak ened by the tack of diversity in newsrooms. Gilliam said the Image conveyed by the media was of "blacks out of control, when the fact is It was a fairly diverse uprising "If we don’t have the dtveraity of decision-making position*. If that doean t happen In newsrooms, and in TV newsrooms, then we have the Image of African-Americans out of Control and that ts a distortion." she sakl.
Black, .in her report to the
ANPAs opening session, said too many newspapers still rely on pre-1980s "conventional wisdom" outmoded by demographic shifts, competition from specialized media and the lagging economy.
"If a newspaper expects to thrive and grow In the next
Imagination and energy Into our newspapers and Into the way we promote them to our readers and advertisers." she said.
Black also urged that news pa per* "*peak with a strong and unified voice" on public policy issues affecting the Industry, Including protect Ing the First Amendment.