A presentation to the Mizzou chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists about newsroom diversity.

1. NEWS REALITY
Diversity in Newsrooms
Presentation by Holly Edgell
March 18, 2009

2. FAMOUS FACES
This anchor/reporter works
for CNN Healline News.
a. Richard Lui
b. Ali Velshi
c. Maynard Keynes

3. FAMOUS FACES
Jorge Ramos anchors the national eve-
ning news on….
a. Telemundo
b. Televisa
c. Univision

4. FAMOUS FACES
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien’s parents are:
a. Mexican Mother/Scottish Father
b. Cuban Mother/Irish Father
c. Domincan Mother/British Father

5. FAMOUS FACES
Nationally syndicated newspaper column-
Ist Leonard Pitts began his career as:
a. A music critic
b. A sports writer
c. A foreign correspondent

6. STATISTICS – TELEVISION & RADIO
SOURCE: RTNDA
2008 2007 2006
US Minority 34% 33.6% 33.2%
Population
Minority TV 23.6 21.5 22.2
Workforce
Minority Radio 11.8 6.2 6.4
Workforce

7. TELEVISION NEWS WORK FORCE
SOURCE: RTNDA
2008 2007 2006
White 76.3% 78.5% 77.8%
Black 10.1 10.1 9.5
Hispanic 10.3 8.7 9.6
Asian-American 2.7 2.3 2.7
Native American 0.5 0.4 0.5

8. RADIO NEWS WORK FORCE
SOURCE: RTNDA
2008 2007 2006
White 88.2% 93.8 93.6
Black 7.8 3.3 2.5
Hispanic 3.6 0.7 1.9
Asian-American 0.4 1.1 1.8
Native American 0 1.1 0.2

9. NEWSPAPER WORK FORCE
SOURCE: ASNE
2008 2007 2006
US Minority 34% 33.6% 33.2%
Population
Minority 13.52% 13.43% 13.73%
Newspaper
Workforce

10. NEWSPAPER WORK FORCE
SOURCE: ASNE
2008 2007 2006
White 86.48% 86.57% 86.27%
Black 5.30 5.27 5.51
Hispanic 4.46 4.37 4.50
Asian- 3.22 3.20 3.15
Americans
Native .54 .59 .57
Americans