WRONG COLOR..

The percentage of minorities in newsrooms totaled 13.26 percent, a decline of .15 percentage points from a year ago, according to the American Society of News Editors, which has conducted a census of newsrooms since 1978 primarily as a means of measuring minority employment.

Highlights of the 2010 Survey
Supervisors: Minorities account for 11 percent of all supervisors in newsrooms, which remains virtually unchanged for the past three years. Of all minorities, 21 percent are supervisors.

Newspapers with no minorities: 465 newspapers responding to the ASNE census had no minorities on their full-time staff. This number has been growing since 2006. All newspapers but one with circulations of 50,000 or more that responded to the census had at least one minority staffer.

This makes me wonder am I not qualified or am I just not the right color?

Where do minorities work: Nearly two-thirds of minorities work at newspapers with circulations exceeding 100,000. The percentage of minorities working at newspapers with more than 500,000 circulation is 18 percent, 250,001 to 500,000 circulation, 19 percent; 100,001 to 250,000 circulation now account for 29 percent.

Other Findings

Online: The census found 1,333 journalists worked solely online at both print and online only newspapers of which nearly 20 percent were minority.
ASNE started counting online-only journalists working in print newsrooms in 2007. This year ASNE also surveyed 28 online only newspapers receiving 25 percent responses.

Internships: The percentage of interns who are minorities stands at 27.4 percent, a increase from 26.4 percent last year.

First time hires: Minorities represented 16 percent of the journalists hired for their first full-time newsroom job, the same as last year.

Women: Women working full-time in daily newspapers total about 15,200 or 36.62 percent. Minority women accounted for 16.3 percent of female newsroom staffers.

Men: Men total just over 26,300. Minority men account for 11.5 percent of male newsroom staffers.