Chasing newsroom diversity [electronic resource] : from Jim Crow to affirmative action / Gwyneth Mellinger.
Material type: TextSeries: The history of communicationPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)ISBN:- 9780252094644
- 071/.3089 23
- PN4797 .M48 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the black and white of newspapers -- Manning the barricade: maintaining the white prerogative in the face of change, 1954-1967 -- Seeking justice in a climate of irony: the hiring initiative's uneasy prelude, 1968-1976 -- "A sensitive and difficult task": establishing a framework for newsroom integration, 1977-1989 -- The gay Nineties: reimagining and renegotiating a multicultural newsroom -- Diversity in crisis: ASNE's time of reckoning, 1998-2002 -- Afterword: closing a chapter of newspaper history.
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