The following was excerpted from "Winds of Change," a recent report from the Freedom Forum

New journalists are 17% ethnic minority and 83% white. (The 1996. survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors reported that daily newspaper newsroom staffs are 11.02% ethnic minority. Television newsroom staffs are 17.1% ethnic minority, while radio newsroom staffs are 14.7% ethnic minority, according to an annual study by the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Ball State University.)

The 17% of new journalists Who are minorities and the 83% of new journalists who are white are represented in the work forces of news organizations, as follows:

2% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 16% of all white new journalists are at weeklies (3% of all new journalists at weeklies are ethnic minorities).

  7% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 26% of all white new journalists are at small dailies (5% of all new journalists at small dailies are ethnic minorities).

24% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 18% of all white new journalists are at medium-size dailies (22% of all new journalists at medium-size dailies are ethnic minorities).

29% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 10% of all white new journalists are at large dailies (37% of all new journalists at large dailies are ethnic minorities). * 7% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 6% of all white new journalists are at magazines (20% of all new journalists at magazines are ethnic minorities).

1% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 2% of all white new journalists are at wire services (4% of all new journalists at wire services are ethnic minorities).

7% of all ethnic-minority new journalists and 9% of all white new journalists are in radio journalism (14% of all new journalists in radio journalism are ethnic minorities).