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Most important areas in which news organizations need to hire different types of reporters to increase diversity in the United States as of February 2020, by ethnicity

Characteristic	Race or ethnicity	Political views	Income or social class	Age	Gender
White	27%	35%	19%	10%	5%
Black	60%	14%	12%	7%	3%
Hispanic	43%	25%	16%	7%	6%
Asian	45%	29%	17%	6%	3%
All adults*	35%	30%	18%	9%	5%

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Release date

June 2020

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Region

United States

Survey time period

November 8 2019 to February 16, 2020

Number of respondents

20,000 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

*All adults figure based on adults who agree news organizations should change. "No answer" percentages not shown

Question: Which of the following is the area in which news organizations most need to hire different types of reporters to increase the diversity of their reporting staffs?

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A survey exploring the need for news organizations in the United States to hire staff in order to increase diversity found the most important area to be representation of race or ethnicity. Racial representation in news organizations was the priority for respondents of Black ethnicity over political views, income, age, or gender, with 60 percent believing there to be a need for more racial diversity. By comparison, just 27 percent of White respondents said the same, instead focusing on the need for diversity of political views, with 35 percent citing variance of political opinion to be important.