The Newsroom Employment Census is a tool ASNE uses to measure the success of its goal of having the percentage of minorities working in newsrooms nationwide equal to the percentage of minorities in the nation's population by 2025.

Current census

• Text of the 2009 census release.
• Percentage of minority staff at participating newspapers

Detailed tables
(Includes corrected numbers for 2006 and 2007 census years.)

• Table A: Minority employment in daily newspapers: projections based on responses to annual employment census
• Table B: Numbers and percentage of minorities by race and job category
• Table C: Numbers and percentage of whites and minorities by job category
• Table D: Percentage distribution of whites and minorities in job categories
• Table E: Percentage of newspapers in seven circulation categories employing minority journalists
• Table F: Minority journalists as a percentage of the professional work force of newspapers in eight circulation categories
• Table G: Percentage distribution of whites and minorities by circulation category
• Table H: Percentage of minority journalists working for newspapers with circulations above and below 100,000
• Table I: Numbers and percentages of minorities in first full-time professional jobs
• Table J: Numbers and percentages of minorities in internships
• Table K: Regional Comparison of Minority Newsroom Employment (Discontinued in 2008)
• Table L: Numbers and percentage of men and women by race
• Table M: Numbers and percentage of men and women by job category
• Table N: Percentage distribution of men and women in job categories
• Table O: Minority and white retention
• Table P: Percent and number of newsroom employees by group

Past censuses

• 2008: main press release, minority percentages at participating newspapers
• 2007: main press release, minority percentages at participating newspapers
• 2006: main press release, minority percentages at participating newspapers
• 2005: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 2004: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 2003: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 2002: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 2001: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 2000: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 1999: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 1998: main press release, minority percentage at participating newspapers
• 1997: main press release

For earlier information, please contact ASNE Diversity Director Bobbi Bowman at bowmanb@asne.org