Chasing newsroom diversity: from Jim Crow to affirmative action

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In this work, Gwyneth Mellinger explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, Mellinger examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press.;""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Black and White of Newspapers""; ""1. Manning the Barricade: Maintaining the White Prerogative in the Face of Change, 1954-67""; ""2. Seeking Justice in a Climate of Irony: The Hiring Initiative's Uneasy Prelude, 1968-76""; ""3. Â ""A Sensitive and Difficult Task"": Establishing a Framework for Newsroom Integration, 1977-89""; ""4. The Gay Nineties: Reimagining and Renegotiating a Multicultural Newsroom""; ""5. Diversity in Crisis: ASNE's Time of Reckoning 1998-2002""