Shrinking Diversity in Newsrooms

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 10, 2011

The number of African-American journalists in newsrooms is shrinking. Bob Butler, vice president for broadcast at the National Association Black Journalists, and Dori Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, discuss what it means for the news when editors, reporters and managers don't reflect American diversity.

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