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Live From Unity 2004: 7,000 Journalists of Color Gather For
Largest Media Conference in the Country
Live From Unity 2004: 7,000 Journalists of Color
Gather For Largest Media Conference in the Country
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Washington D.C., reporting
on UNITY 2004, a convention of journalists of color--it's
the largest gathering of journalists in the United States.
While people of color represent 40 percent of the United States
population and African Americans make up 60 percent of the
D.C. population, a study released this week by UNITY found
that just 10.5 percent of Washington’s newspaper press
corps are journalists of color. And journalists of color face
significant challenges in gaining parity and fighting racism
in the newsroom.
The Bush campaign came under criticism earlier this week
for engaging in racial profiling of a journalist in Arizona.
The campaign insisted on knowing the race of a photographer
of Indian ancestry from the Arizona Daily Star before she
was allowed to photograph an event featuring Vice President
Dick Cheney. The paper refused to tell the campaign.
We're joined today by some of the leaders of UNITY, which
represents 7,000 media professionals of color: Patty Talahongva,
president of the Native American Journalists Association,
Mae Cheng, president of the Asian American Journalists Association,
Herbert Lowe, president of the National Association of Black
Journalists, Ernest Sotomayor, president of UNITY, and Democracy
Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez, out-going president of the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu,
Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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