New Jersey newsrooms somewhat reflect state’s diversity, study finds

It is well-known and well-documented that newsrooms across the United States have not reflected their communities for decades. As we said earlier this year, pressure on journalism organizations to reflect the diversity of the country has rightfully grown, especially recently.

Our focus at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University is our home New Jersey, an incredibly diverse state. We consider it part of our mission to ensure New Jersey media is representative of that diversity.

But we’ve never had a good baseline of the diversity of the industry in New Jersey against which to measure, which is why we launched a statewide diversity survey of New Jersey journalists and newsrooms in January.

Today we’re excited to publish the results and share the takeaways.

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