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Diversity in TV & Radio Programming

Feature Stories

• Changing Representations in the Media - 9/2/08
• Study: Sunday Political Shows Still Short on Black Guests - 4/27/06
• Panel Addresses Relationships between Media, Race, and Policy  - 12/19/05
• Studies: Minorities Shut Out of Sunday and Prime Time Programs - 8/9/05

Fact Sheets & Information

• Media Stereotyping - Media Awareness Network (Canada)
• Tips for Portraying People with Disabilities in the Media - Easter Seals

Reports

• Ignorance and Venom: The Media's Deeply Ingrained Sexism - National Organization for Women - Spring 2008
• The 2007 Asian Pacific American Media Coalition Report Card on Television Diversity - Asian Pacific American Media Coalition - 10/29/07 
• Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Content on Television: A Quantitative Analysis Across Two Seasons - PubMed Central - 10/4/07
• The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio - The Center for American Progress and the Free Press - 6/21/07
• Young Men of Color in the Media: Images and Impacts (pdf) - Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies - 3/26/07
• National Brownout Report 2006 The Portrayal of Latinos and Latino Issues on Network Television News, 2005 - National Association of Hispanic Journalists - 10/19/06
• Sunday Morning Apartheid: a Diversity Study of the Sunday Morning Talk Shows (pdf) - National Urban League Policy Institute - 3/26/06
• The Presence, Portrayal and Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Television Programming  - Report - Canadian Association of Broadcasters - 9/16/05
• Asian Pacific Americans in Primetime: Lights, Camera and Little Action (pdf) - National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium - 5/2/05
• Delving into the Divide: A Study of Race Reporting in Forty-Five U.S. Newsrooms - Pew Center for Civic Journalism - 10/1/01
• Off Balance: Youth, Race & Crime in the News - Building Blocks for Youth - April 2001
• Casting the American Scene: A Look at the Characters on Prime time and Daytime Television from 1994-1997 - Screen Actors Guild - December 1998

Websites

• NAACP Top 100 Films of the Century - In honor of its 100th anniversary, the NAACP wants to identify the top 100 movies for and about African Americans that have had a significant impact on American society and culture. Vote for the top 100 films through April 27, 2009.