By: E&P Staff Schurz Communications signed on to become the third newspaper company in the "Ten by 2010" to move minorities into senior management positions, Unity: Journalists of Color Inc. announced Friday.
South Bend, Ind.-based Schurz joins Gannett Co. Inc. and The New York Times Company in the project announced at last week's Unity '08 convention to get commitments from 10 media companies to select at least one "high-potential manager of color and to provide that employee with an opportunity to compete for a promotion to a senior management position by midyear 2010," Unity said.
Candidates will receive customized training and coaching to help prepare them for specific senior level positions.
"UNITY is pleased to welcome Schurz Communications to the 'Ten by 2010' project," said UNITY President Karen Lincoln Michel. "The company's presence in medium and small markets will help provide opportunities to managers of color in Schurz properties located across the country."
Schurz publishes 13 daily and seven weekly newspapers in small and medium markets with a combined circulation of 225,000. It also owns nine television stations, 13 radio stations, two cable companies, a phone directory and a printing company.
The following organizations are offering training as part of the "Ten by 2010" initiative: National Association of Multicultural Media Executives; The Media Management Center at Northwestern University; The Poynter Institute; The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; National Association of Black Journalists Media Institute; National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation; Radio-Television News Directors Foundation; and The Reinvention Institute.
Unity is an alliance of the four largest organizations of journalists of color: the National Association of Black Journalists; National Association of Hispanic Journalists; Asian American Journalists Association; and Native American Journalists Association.
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