Ninety percent of those who responded to the post-convention survey indicated that it met or exceeded their expectations. Best-selling author Daniel Pink and Facebook’s Justin Osofsky were the highest-rated speakers, and a reception on the USS Midway and an evening at Qualcomm were the most popular social events.

WASHINGTON - Nearly 2,000 journalists left the newspaper industry last year, the largest loss in 25 years, while the percent of minority journalists working at daily newspapers rose nearly a half of one percentage point to 12.07 percent.

NEW ORLEANS --- Diversity in the newsrooms of American daily newspapers improved by nearly half of one percent in 2002, but the growth of minority journalists to 12.53 percent of newsroom staff lagged behind the percentage of minorities

WASHINGTON — The number of minority journalists working at daily newspapers grew in the past year by a third of a percentage point moving from 11.55 percent to 11.85 percent, according to the 2000 newsroom employment survey issued by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. This mar

SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of minority journalists working at daily newspapers crept up only slightly in 1998, increasing 1.5 percent. Asian, black, Hispanic and Native American journalists now comprise 11.55 percent of newsroom employees, compared to 11.46 percent the previous year,

WASHINGTON — The number of minority journalists working at daily newspapers fell from 11.85 percent to 11.64 percent in the past year even though newsrooms hired more first full-time minority professionals in 2000 than in any of the past 10 years.

ASNE will hold hourlong Twitter chats beginning Tuesday at noon, using the hashtag #ASNEchat. The weekly chats will feature a guest who will be “interviewed” on a specific topic, but the format will be conversational and participatory.

RESTON, VA – Editors around the country are frustrated by financial pressures, mandates beyond their control and constantly shifting goals. But they are determined to weather the storm, do good journalism and come out stronger on the other side, according to the results of a joint research survey released today by the American Press Institute and the American Society of News Editors.

American daily newspapers lost another 5,200 jobs last year bringing the total loss of journalists since 2007 to 13,500. But American daily newspapers lost fewer staffers than in 2008, when nearly 6,000 journalists left newsrooms across the country. The percentage of minorities in newsrooms totaled 13.26 percent, a decline of .15 percentage points from a year ago.

American newspapers showed a very slim increase in newsroom employees last year, finally halting a three-year exodus of journalists.

The percentage of minorities in newsrooms totaled 12.79 percent, a decline of .47 percentage points from a year ago, according to the American Society of News Editors, which has conducted a census of professional full-time journalists since 1978.