News in a New America

   A Report For the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  

   By Sally Lehrman,  2006

   This book examines news coverage of a changing America. It was commissioned in early 2004 by the John S. and James L.Knight Foundation as a fresh perspective on the issue of newsand newsroom diversity.

   The book also includes a guide to avariety of diversity programs and resources and the results of three surveys showing trends among American journalists and in newspaper and broadcast newsrooms.

About the Author: 

Sally Lehrman, the national diversity chair for the Society of Professional Journalists, is an award-winning independent journalist who covers medicine and science policy.

She has written for a wide range of publications including Scientific American, Health, Salon.com, Nature, Alternative Medicine, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. For 13 years she covered AIDS, biotechnology, health policy and business as a columnist and reporter at The San Francisco Examiner.

Lehrman was part of a team that received a 2002 Peabody Award for a series of public radio documentaries on human genetics. The group also received a Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Award for excellence in health and medical programming and the 1999 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton. In 1995-96, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

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