NAHJ Parity Project

Latinos make up only 4% of newspaper employees and only 6% of the local TV newsroom work force despite making up the largest group of people of color in the country. The American Society of Newspaper Editors has called on the industry to substantially increase representation and reach parity by 2025.

To meet this challenge, NAHJ is proud to launch the Campaign for Parity, a multi-year initiative to strengthen education and professional development opportunities for Latino journalists, increase advocacy efforts around coverage of Latinos and partner with media companies across the U.S. to more rapidly achieve newsroom parity.

In just a few short months, we’re getting substantive results:

The number of Latinos in a Denver newsroom is increasing after NAHJ conducted diversity training with the staff and managers providing an overview of the city’s and nation’s Latino community. NAHJ also sponsored a town hall meeting to organize the city’s Latino community to work with the newspaper on reaching newsroom parity and to improve news coverage.
Latino leaders said the Parity Project’s spirited community meeting in Naples, Fla. last September on local news coverage was the first time that so many of them had gathered together in the same room to discuss issues affecting the Latino community.
NAHJ gave $70,000 in scholarships to young Latino journalists this year and trained and served as mentors to hundreds more. NAHJ continues to strengthen the pipeline of eager, young Hispanics pursuing careers in journalism.
NAHJ made the industry take notice when the association addressed its concerns that further media consolidation may have a negative effect on journalism and the Latino community. NAHJ urged the FCC to seek more public input before the agency decided to issue new broadcast ownership regulations and urged the news media to cover the issue.