{"product_id":"chasing-newsroom-diversity-9780252078941","title":"Chasing Newsroom Diversity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetails missed opportunity in the newspaper industry's diversity efforts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Luther Mott \/ Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Gwyneth Mellinger's \u003ci\u003eChasing Newsroom Diversity: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action\u003c\/i\u003e offers explanations for 'why an effort so promising failed so profoundly.' In explaining the failure, the book provides a meticulous documented view of the ASNE over a fifty-year span, beginning in the mid-1950s. The work provides an excellent foundation for further studies on newsroom diversity.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Using the insights of whiteness studies and a rich array of primary sources, Mellinger demonstrates how and why the American Society of Newspaper Editors failed to achieve its 1978 diversity initiative's hiring goals by the goal year of 2000. She persuasively argues that whiteness (and maleness) consistently operated as a professional norm within the ASNE across time, even as the organization's leaders attempted to diversify newsrooms across America. A compelling and provocative book.\"--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment\u003cbr\u003e“Provides a compelling explanation for how forward-thinking goals can be felled by institutional prejudice. . . . Anyone interested in the social movements of the twentieth century will find the book a worthwhile read.”—\u003ci\u003eJournalism History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eChasing Newsroom Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thoroughly reported account of the evolution of ASNE's approach to minority recruitment and the feeble implementation of that goal in the workplace.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewspaper Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The work provides an excellent foundation for further studies on newsroom diversity. As a teaching tool, the book also would likely prompt lively classroom discussions.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Mellinger provides a very useful and most informative case study of how one professional organization addresses some deeply embedded, institutionalized norms with social, political and cultural implications over an extended period of time--50 years, with insight into the degree of difficulty it had in trying to dismantle them.\"--\u003ci\u003eGateway Journalism Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400493277527,"sku":"9780252078941","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252078941.jpg?v=1730470817","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chasing-newsroom-diversity-9780252078941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}