Report Rates Diversity Poor in Washington Press Corps
The reporters who write about the White House and Congress for the nation's newspapers are overwhelmingly white and do only a "fair" to "poor" job of covering race-related issues, according to a survey released yesterday by Unity: Journalists of Color, a consortium of four minority journalism associations that is staging a convention in Washington this week. The survey, "Diversity in the Washington Newspaper Press Corps," shows that white journalists make up 90 percent of reporters and editors in Washington bureaus, while less than 70 percent of the U.S. population is white. Minority journalists -- Asians, African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans -- make up less than 12 percent of bureau reporters, while minorities represent more than 30 percent of the population.
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