In honor of the 100th anniversary of journalism education, the
faculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and
an Honorary Committee of alumni, announced “the 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years,” at a reception at the university on
April 3. The list included only 22 women, 8 African-Americans and no Asian Americans or Latinos, which prompted many to criticize the list.
UNITY: Journalists of Color, an alliance that advocates diversity
in news coverage, published its own list, “Journalists seeds list of top journalists of the past century,” because they felt “it was necessary to suggest
journalists whose inclusion in NYU’s list would have better represented the
full diversity of our country, our industry and the past century.”
The Atlantic Wire also criticized the small number of women on the NYU’s list, which represents less than one woman for every four men, and
emphasized that the women on the list had to fight a harder battle than men.
As if the NYU’s list was not enough of a disappointment for women,
the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has also been criticized for
including zero women for their National Magazine Awards. “I find it hard to
believe that ASME's judges couldn't think of a couple of their own selections
to create at least the appearance of parity in their nominations,” Alexander
Nazaryan, from the New York Daily News said.
Sid Holt, the chief executive of ASME, said the criticisms were “kind of silly,” according to the Poynter Institute, explaining that the decision process was
fair.
It is obvious that women are still fighting to
be fairly represented in a world dominated by men, as these lists show. It is just
too hard to believe that there are not enough women journalists or minorities out
there that are not worthy of being nominated or honored for their work. We live in a diverse
world, and that is simply not represented on these lists, which is truly a
shame.
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