Last Updated: September 23, 1999
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ASNE on the
move
Editors looking for minority candidates for entry-level jobs now have
a new tool - the ASNE Talent Bank. mOn the ASNE Web Site, editors can now
currently pull up names of about 100 candidates from across the U.S. who
are looking for internships and first-time jobs.
The Web address of the Talent Bank is: http://www.asne.
org/talent.htm and is linked to a database maintained by ASNE.
The site is especially designed to help editors of small- to medium-size
newspapers find minority candidates for their newsrooms.
Editors can search for candidates from their communities or students
who attend nearby colleges.
The Talent Bank is the result of a special partnership between ASNE
and some of the country's top college professors. The professors enter
the names, e-mail addresses and backgrounds of their most talented students
who are interested in careers in newsrooms. Other professors and journalism
programs will be asked to contribute to the Talent Bank.
All qualified candidates attending ASNE-sponsored job fairs also will
be entered in the database.
The editors can use the Talent Bank to find candidates for reporters,
copy editors, photographers and, in the future, graphic artists and online
personnel.
"The Talent Bank is very cool," said Joe Grimm, Recruiting and Development
Editor of the Detroit Free Press. "I tried it a couple ways, looking as
we are for a fall design intern," said Grimm, who was among about a half-dozen
editors who pre-tested the site.
The Talent Bank is among several ASNE-sponsored activities that are
aimed at increasing the number of minorities working in newsrooms.
Last year, ASNE adopted a new mission statement that states the nation's
newsrooms should reflect the racial diversity of American society by 2025
or sooner. Currently minorities make up 11.55 percent of the staffs at
daily newspapers while minorities make up 28.4 percent of the U.S. population.
