Ducking the Diversity Issue: Newspapers’ Real Failure Is Performance

Authors

Ted Pease, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

NewspaperResearch Journal

Volume

11

Issue

3

Publisher

Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Publication Date

Summer 1990

First Page

24

Last Page

37

Abstract

Perhaps we've paid too much attention to issues of hiring minorities and diversifying newsrooms, avoiding the tougher questions of content, coverage and newspapers' role in a pluralistic society. After each annual newsroom nose-count is completed, where do newspapers stand on issues of performance?

Comments

Originally Published by the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Newspaper Research Journal.

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Recommended Citation

Edward C. Pease. “Ducking the Diversity Issue: Newspapers’ Real Failure Is Performance.” Newspaper Research Journal, 11 (3): 24-37 (Summer 1990).