In order to fully cover our communities, we must reflect them. And it’s why the USA TODAY Network has a goal of doing just that by 2025 — to have our newsroom teams match the racial and ethnic makeup of the communities we serve.
Each year, we report our progress.
How are we doing?
In Gannett’s content division, made up of more than 200 newsrooms nationwide, we showed continued positive progress in overall diversity, increasing in Black staffers (from 7.7% to 8.2%), Asian (from 3.5% to 3.9%), Hispanic/Latino (from 7.3% to 7.9%) and two or more races categories (1.6% to 2.2%), while holding steady in all others (Native American, 0.5%; Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.2%).
