Latino journalists make up 4 percent of dailies, lowest since 2001

By Percy Luján, Hispanic Link/Voxxi

The annual census by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) shows that Latinos represent an even 4.0 percent of newsroom employees on daily papers, while comprising 16.9 percent of the U.S. population.

That’s the lowest Hispanic participation rate since 2001, when they made up 3.9 percent. The high water mark of 4.6 percent was reached in 2009.

In 2001 there were 2,098 Hispanics with jobs in the newsrooms of the nation’s dailies Eleven years later, there are 1,512.

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