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The ASNE workforce survey, to be released at the convention in April,
confirms the notion that newspaper journalists tend to identify themselves
as liberals or Democrats.
The findings were similar to those from a 1988 study, with journalists
calling themselves politically "independent" gaining.
In 1996, 61 percent of newspaper journalists surveyed considered themselves
"Democrat or liberal" or "leaned" toward that political view while 15 percent
of newspaper journalists reported that they were "Republican/conservative"
or "leaned" that way. About 24 percent reported themselves as "independent."
Journalists were also asked about their newspapers’ editorial page stance
versus the prevailing view of their community.
Nearly half thought their editorial pages were "pretty much in sync"
with readers 20 percent thought their pages were more conservative and
11 percent more liberal than the community.
