Recent News Releases

• Diverse Newsrooms Can Transform Our Industry
  (04-14-2008)
• New FCC Rules Ignore Crisis in Minority Media Ownership
  UNITY urges participants to take action
  (01-02-2008)
• UNITY statement on suspension of Aguilar
  (10-24-2007)
• UNITY: Diversity should be prime factor in reshaping America's newsrooms
  (10-22-2007)
• UNITY Urges Passage of H.R. 2102, The Free Flow of Information Act
  (10-15-2007)
• UNITY launches year-long Challenge Fund IV
  (10-12-2007)
• Dropping Imus Elevates Diversity
  (4-13-07)
• Imus Should Have Gotten Stiffer Penalty
  (04-10-07)
• UNITY Statement on Newsroom Layoffs
  (01/20/06)
• Statement on Rosie O'Donnell's comments on ABC's "The View"
  (12/11/06)
• Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to speak at UNITY reception
  (10/26/06)
• Onica Makwaka Named UNITY Executive Director
  (8/9/06)
• UNITY: Increasing Newsroom Diversity Makes Economic Sense
  (04/25/06)
• UNITY Board Calls on Industry to Step Up Diversity Efforts Amid Great Change and Uncertain Future
  (03/20/06)
• UNITY Executive Director Resigns
  (01/25/06)
• UNITY Discouraged by Slow Progress of Diversity in Broadcast News
  (07/13/05)
  
• UNITY Supports NY Times' Judith Miller
  (07/07/05)
  
• RTNDA Names Winners of RTNDA/UNITY Awards:
  News Organizations That Celebrate Diversity
  (06/20/05)
  
• UNITY Picks Chicago for 2008
  (06/18/05)
  
• Increasing Newsroom Diversity: It's Time to Make It Personal
  (04/12/05)
  
• Latest Federal Court Ruling On First Amendment Rights A Blow Against All Journalists
  (02/17/05)
  
• UNITY releases aggressive 5-year strategic plan
  (02/10/05)
  
• Mae Cheng elected president of UNITY
  (11/23/04)
  
• Anna López named to Hispanic Business 100 Most Influentials
  (10/14/2004)
  
• Geraldo Rivera Pledges $100,000 to NAHJ, UNITY
  (8/6/04)
  
• Washington Print Press Corps has Dismal Record on Diversity, Says Study by UNITY: Journalists of Color and Merrill College of Journalism
  (08/04/2004)
  
• John Kerry to Speak at UNITY 2004
  (07/29/04)
  
• President Bush to Speak at UNITY 2004
  (07/23/04)
• Statement by UNITY and its alliance partners, AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ and NAJA on the annual Radio and Television News Directors-Ball State University Annual Diversity Survey
  (07/14/04)
  
• UNITY 2004 Convention Extends Pre-Registration Deadline to July 1
  (06/15/04)
  
• UNITY2004 to attract the nation’s journalists of color and feature industry’s largest media and career expo
  (06/10/04)
  
• Joint statement by UNITY, AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ and NAJA on the annual American Society of Newspaper Editors Newsroom Census
  (04/20/04)
  
• Journalist's memory, mission will live on
  (02/20/04)
  
• Diversity Summit Addresses Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Radio and Television Newsrooms
  (01/13/04)
  
• Statement by UNITY President Ernest Sotomayor Jr. on FCC localism initiative
  (8/20/03)
  
• RTNDA, UNITY to hold diversity summit
  (8/8/03)
  
• UNITY calls on broadcast industry to convene diversity summit
  (8/1/03)
  
• NAHJ Blasts Broadcast Industry for Backpedaling on Commitment to Diversity
  (8/1/03)
  
• Percentage of Minorities Drops in Local Radio and TV Newsrooms
  (7/31/03)
  
• UNITY president praises Newspaper Association of America's decision to hire diversity director
  (6/24/03)
  
• RTNDA Names Winners of RTNDA/UNITY Awards: News Organizations That Celebrate Diversity
  (6/19/03)
  
• UNITY Names Anna Lopez Executive Director
  (5/9/03)
  
• UNITY: Newspapers face diversity crisis and need crisis reaction
  (4/7/03)
  
• UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. seeks more hearings before FCC revises media ownership rules
  (3/25/03)
  
• Ernest R. Sotomayor Elected 2003-2004 UNITY President
  (1/1/03)