NW Journalists of Color awards scholarships as newsrooms lag in ethnic diversity

While our nation may be moving quickly to become a true rainbow of racial diversity, America’s newsrooms aren’t keeping pace.

"Minorities make up 35 percent of the nation's population," said Sanjay Bhatt, a Seattle Times business reporter speaking at Tuesday's (June 7) Northwest Journalists of Color's 25th anniversary scholarship awards. "If our newsrooms reflected that growing diversity, we would have more than 14,000 journalists of color working at the nation’s newspapers."