Sports newsrooms - not much diversity

A few media outlets wrote pieces on a study released last week by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at University of Central Florida that said most newspaper sports staffs are white and male. Here is a link to the actual report (PDF file)

Here's a few stats quoted from the report. APSE stands for Associated Press Sports Editors.

• White men and women comprised 88 percent of the total staffs of all APSE member newspapers; African-Americans held 6.2 percent, Latinos 3.6 percent, Asians 1.3 percent, and “other” people of color less than 1 percent.
• Women made up 12.6 percent of total staffs of APSE member newspapers.
• 94.7 percent of APSE sports editors were white while 90.0 percent were white males; African-Americans held only 1.6 percent; Latinos 2.8 percent and “others” less than 1 percent. There were no Asian sports editors.
• America’s sports columnists were 89.9 percent white.
• Women made up less than 7 percent of columnists at APSE member newspaper sports staff.
• Women and people of color combined to make up only 16.4 percent of columnists of the surveyed APSE member newspapers.