New report shows lack of progress for women of color in the media

WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the Kerner Commission criticized the news media for not sufficiently covering race issues, a new special report shows that women of color continue to be underrepresented in U.S. newsrooms and face multiple challenges in achieving equality in hiring and promotions.

The Women’s Media Center report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018,” offers a rare look at where women journalists of color are — and aren’t — in legacy print, radio, TV and digital news. It is an important extension and extrapolation of data previously published in the Women’s Media Center’s annual “The Status of Women in the U.S. Media” study, and includes data about minority journalists released after the most recent version of that report that was produced in 2017.

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