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The Hartford Courant, Conn., Reader Representative column.

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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