Diversity Efforts.(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  July, 2001  by Beaudette, Marie

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This year, the American Society of Newspaper Editors announced the percentage of minority journalists working at daily papers fell from 2000 to 2001-the first decline in 23 years. Such setbacks are what the Chips Quinn Scholars Program, sponsored by the Freedom Forum, is trying to prevent.

The program places minority student journalists and recent college graduates in editing, reporting and art internships at newspapers across the country. The initiative, which started with six interns and has now helped train more than 600 journalists, was founded in 1991 in memory of New York's ...

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