Here, you'll find a wealth of resources, links, downloadable reports on diversity in journalism — everything from newsroom demographics to how news organizations cover communities of color. Browse the lists, and let us know what you'd like to see.

Newspapers

• Annual American Society of Newspaper Editors newsroom survey
• UNITY / Merrill Study says D.C. Newspaper Press Corps Lacks Diversity

Radio / Television

• UNITY's position on FCC issues
  Read statements from UNITY and other journalism groups on the FCC's broadcast ownership regulations.
  FCC docket containing UNITY statement
  
  
• Hispanic journalists push minority broadcast ownership
  NAHJ board approves several resolutions designed to increase journalists of color in electronic communications. More »
  
  

'Sunday Morning Apartheid'
National Urban League says Sunday's morning TV talk shows are almost void of blacks and other people of color. More »
Urban League Report » (105 KB PDF)

 2005 RTNDA / Ball State University Annual Survey

 Minorities comprise 21.2 percent of U.S. television news staffs. More »

Resources

• Committee of Concerned Journalists
• Journalism.org
  Online Home of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists
• The McCormick Tribune Fellows
• The Maynard Institute
• RTNDA Diversity Toolkit
• RTNDA Diversity Initiatives
• Religion Newswriters Association Online Stylebook
  
• Study: Ethnic press in New York facing hurdles to get government information
  (PDF, requires Adobe Reader.)
  
  

Features

• "Beyond argument"
  Editor & Publisher magazine says there's no debating the value of UNITY's conventions.
  
  
• The Maynard Institute looks at NAHJ's Parity Project
  
  
• Vanilla Ceiling:
  Magazines still shades of white
  When it comes to diversity, the $18-billion-a-year U.S. magazine industry is "a delicate shade of salmon," writes one researcher.
  
  
• "Diversity's Greatest Hits," by Richard Prince
  
• "News in a New America," a fresh look at media diversity, by the Knight Foundation. (PDF, requires the free Adobe Reader.)
  
  

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