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The Hartford Courant, Conn., Reader Representative column.
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Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
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April 30, 2006
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Hartford Courant. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Karen Hunter
Apr. 30--The American Society of Newspaper Editors delivered its annual diversity report last week. One could find optimism in its headline, "ASNE Census Shows Newsroom Diversity Grows Slightly," if the facts weren't so pathetic.
In 1978, ASNE challenged newspapers to reflect their communities by achieving newsroom diversity equivalent to the U.S. minority population by 2000. That deadline was missed. The next is 2025.
In 2006, with editors pressed by other issues -- not the least of which is budgets -- the negligible growth in minority representation in the nation's 1,400 newsrooms (13.87 percent, up from 13.42 percent the past year) is met ...
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