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| January 01, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2009 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

STARTING THIS MONTH, we can look forward to daily press briefings from President Obama's administration. However, a quick scan of the latest numbers shows that the Washington press corps reporting our daily D.C. political news will be predominantly white.

 
13.1    percent: reporters, correspondents, columnists and editors 
        who are people of color in the Washington daily newspaper 
        press corps 
 
86.9    percent: white reporters, correspondents, columnists and 
        editors in the Washington daily newspaper press corps 
 
16.9    ...

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