Chasing Newsroom DiversitySocial change triggered by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s sent the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on a fifty year mission to dismantle an exclusionary professional standard that envisioned the ideal journalist as white, straight, and male. In this book, Gwyneth Mellinger explores the complex history of the decades long ASNE diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with