NEW EDITOR:

Hispanic Link News Service reporter Arlene Martinez has accepted the position of interim editor of Weekly Report. She replaces Cynthia Orosco, who leaves the Link after two years to accept a position with a Midwest daily.

45 SIGN ON:

Forty-five organizations signed on to comments filed by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council supporting the Federal Communications Commission's proposed equal employment opportunity regulations.

The new rules call on companies to disseminate widely information on job openings at radio, television and cable companies. They also require companies to send job vacancy announcements to recruitment organizations that request them and to select from a menu of non-vacancy-specific outreach approaches, such as job fairs, internship programs, and interaction with educational and community groups.

The rules would also require most television and radio stations to file a report detailing their outreach efforts. Among the media groups that signed on to the comments were the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, National Hispanic Media Coalition, National Association of Black Journalists, Asian American Journalists Association and UNITY: Journalists of Color.

In 2001, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found a portion of the EEO rules that the FCC proposed in 2000 unconstitutional. All state broadcast associations had opposed the new regulations, claiming the industry had improved its diversity efforts.