By: Minorities may be better represented on business and financial news staffs than they are in newsrooms at large, according to a new survey from Baruch College in New York.
The survey of 21 major newspapers found that minorities comprise 22.7% of business news staffs. This compares with the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) survey which found that 12.07% of all newsroom staff came from minority groups. (Baruch said the small size of its survey doesn't allow for direct comparisons with ASNE's annual study. Baruch sent its survey to 60 of the nation's largest papers.)
Conducted with the support of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), the survey found three minority groups about equally represented: 7.9% were Asian-American, 7.6% were Hispanic, and 7% were African-American. Supervising editors on business desks included an even higher proportion of minorities: 24.6%.
The survey found that 56.9% of all minority employees on business desks were women, compared with 42.6% of all business news workers.
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