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Major study of journalists posted on Web
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 10/31/1997 17:50:00
- In: Surveys
ASNE's ‘The Newspaper Journalists of the '90s' report now online
RESTON, Va. – An in-depth study by the American Society of Newspaper Editors of newspaper journalists is now available in electronic form on ASNE's Web site.
ASNE's ‘The Newspaper Journalists of the '90s' report now online
RESTON, Va. – An in-depth study by the American Society of Newspaper Editors of newspaper journalists is now available in electronic form on ASNE's Web site.
Originally released at the April 1997 convention, "The Newspaper Journalists of the '90s" is a report based on a representative sample of newsroom staffers analyzed by Paul S. Voakes, assistant professor of journalism at Indiana University, and the members of the 1996-97 ASNE Human Resources Committee. More than 1,000 randomly selected journalists at U.S. daily newspapers responded to questions in the fall of 1996 about their work, their aspirations and themselves.
The report details "abundant, profound and unpredictable changes" in the make-up of the largest group of journalists — those who work for the more than 1,500 daily newspapers in the United States. Change is measured since 1987, when ASNE conducted a similar survey.
The project was managed by the 1996-97 Human Resources Committee, chaired by Gene Foreman, deputy editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
All the information in the original report — including the statistical tables — is included in the Web edition.
ASNE, with 870 members, is an organization of the main editors of daily newspapers in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1922, ASNE's principal purpose is to serve as a medium for exchange of ideas and the professional growth and development of its members.