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- Title
An Examination of Diversity Issues in SE Journalism College Newspapers.
- Authors
Wickham, Kathleen Woodruff
- Abstract
This article presents a study that examined U.S. college newspapers in the context of diversity statements, ethics codes and staffing. The underlying premises of this study is that professional newsrooms look to college newsrooms to prepare future journalists and issues of diversity are not and should not be debated from the perspective of a majority looking at a minority but rather people looking at people and viewing their issues and sources with equal validity. The study found only four schools, or 10.2 percent, that participated had written guidelines that covered diversity issues at the student newspaper leaving 35 schools, or 89.8 percent, of the schools without written diversity guidelines. The overwhelming lack of written guidelines for diversity coverage in college newspapers found in this study is vitally important in the field of research, professional media and student publications. A written commitment to diversity in reporting provides a standard for writers to follow. If a standard is implemented early in the education of a journalist, a commitment to diversity has an increased chance of becoming part of the journalist's mantra that already includes fairness, balance and accuracy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLLEGE student newspapers &; periodicals; MULTICULTURALISM; JOURNALISTIC ethics; AMERICAN journalism
- Publication
Newspaper Research Journal, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 3, p103
- ISSN
0739-5329
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/073953290402500311