The newspaper world shows its staggering commitment to equal opportunity: reports released this week say that the number of non-white newspaper employees has more than tripled since 1978. Think of it like this: in 1978, say a newspaper had 25 employees, and there was this one black guy that no one talked to. Now, 25 years later, there's still 25 employees but now the black guy has two friends: a wacky Latina chick and an Asian dude (who's probably gay anyway).

Even better, one in ten of the people in supervisor capacity is un-white. Wow, impressive. New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania newspapers are rocking out with cumulative 12% minority employment. That's nearly equal representation — except, you know, it's about half of what equal representation would be.
Tables from the 2004 Newsroom Employment Survey [ASNE]