Mainstreaming and diversity are Gannett's core values; but these programs 'are not without controversy.'.(Race and Reporting)
Nieman Reports, September, 2003 by Witosky, Tom
Jay Harris's argument for minority mainstreaming and diversity in U.S. journalism is the same today as it was 20 years ago, when he was a national correspondent for the Gannett News Service and an African-American city councilman from a small Louisiana city that Harris can't even remember presented it to him.
"He had been on the city council for years," the former San Jose Mercury News publisher remembered recently. "But the only time the local paper asked him about anything, it was about a problem in the minority community or about the poor. They never asked him for comment when there was a planning and zoning proposal or a city street paving problem. It's like he didn't exist when those questions came up." Harris heard those comments in 1984, at a...
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