Diversity report for BJ in June 2005

Nancy Yockey Bonar calls our attention to a newsroom diversity report for the Akron Beacon Journal. The report was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig in June 2005

The study shows 20.8 per cent of non-whites in tne newsroom in 2005. The high for the period from 1990-2005 was 21.6 per cent in 1997. This compares with 12 per cent non-whites in the newspaper's circulation area.

Click on the headline to see the report with some nice graphics.