Transcript + Finding diverse stories and sources JMC 3013: Multimedia News Gathering

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Finding diverse stories
and sources
JMC 3013: Multimedia News Gathering
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“Doing diversity” means
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Having diverse newsrooms
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Providing diverse content
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Having diverse newsrooms
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1968 Kerner Commission report.
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Created to study causes of race riots in Newark and Detroit
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Highly critical of
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Lack of coverage of black communities
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Lack of minority journalists at mainstream media outlets
1978 ASNE
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Set goal of newsroom parity by 2025
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Launched annual newsroom survey
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Having diverse newsrooms, cont.
ASNE SURVEY:
Minorities in Newsrooms
1978
2008
3.95%
13.52%
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Having diverse content
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Why does it matter?
Population
2000
2010 2020
2030
2040
2050
White
alone
81.0
79.3
77.6
75.8
73.9
72.1
Black alone
12.7
13.1
13.5
13.9
14.3
14.6
Asian alone 3.8
4.6
5.4
6.2
7.1
8.0
All other
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.1
4.7
5.3
Hispanic
12.6
15.5
17.8
20.1
22.3
24.4
White alone,
not Hispanic
69.4
65.1
61.3
57.5
53.7
50.1
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Having diverse content, cont.
Percent
Change
20002050
20002010
20102020
20202030
20302040
20402050
White alone
32.4
7.2
6.4
5.8
5.1
4.5
Black alone
71.3
12.9
12.1
11.2
10.8
9.8
Asian alone
212.9
33.3
26.3
25.5
24.0
19.4
other
217.1
30.7
27.9
25.5
24.0
22.0
Hispanic
187.9
34.1
25.1
22.3
19.9
17.1
White/not
Hispanic
7.4
2.8
2.4
1.6
0.6
0.0
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At OU…
American
Nonresident
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Indian
Alien
TOTAL
1987
17,528
920
257
484
520
1,270
20,979
1997
14,612
1,303
647
988
1,370
1,589
20,509
2007
16,740
1,250
914
1,205
1,633
1,384
23,126
72.4
5.4
4.0
5.2
7.1
6.0
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Diversity is more than
race/ethnicity
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Political ideology
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Religion
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Gender
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Sexual preference
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Rural/urban
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Other?