Minority employment down in newsrooms.

Broadcasting & Cable, July, 1999 by Trigoboff, Dan

Numbers released by the Radio-Television News Directors Association last week showed a slight drop, from 20% to 19%, of minorities as a percentage of overall employment in the nation's TV newsrooms. The study was conducted for RTNDA by Ball State University. RTNDA, which presented the numbers at the Unity conference in Seattle last week, said it was too soon to tell if the elimination of the FCC's EEO mandates were a factor in the drop.

The percentage of women news directors also dropped--from 23% to 20%--while the overall number of women in TV news rose to its highest percentage ever, 39%.