But within magazines, the lack of minority journalists is widely considered an embarrassment.

She and her husband, Robert, helped found a nonprofit institute to train minority journalists.

It is not clear why the increase in minority journalists may be leveling off.

But a majority of daily newspapers, 55 percent, still employ no minority journalists.

The mayor promised that his press office would meet monthly with minority journalists.

Over all, the message to minority journalists seems to be that entering the newspaper business is becoming even more difficult.

At all the networks, there's a real commitment to get black and other minority journalists on the air.

The number of minority journalists at American daily newspapers rose slightly last year, according to a report today.

It also found that 45.8 percent of American daily newspapers employed no minority journalists at all.

The layoffs cost the paper many of its younger and minority journalists.