The 2006 Racial and Gender Report Card of the Associated Press Sports Editors (PDF; 331 KB)
Source: Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program, University of Central Florida College of Business Administration
“When 94.7 percent of the sports editors, 86.7 percent of the assistant sports editors, 89.9 percent of our columnists, 87.4 percent of our reporters and 89.7 percent of our copy editors/designers are white, and those same positions are 95, 87, 93, 90 and 87 percent male, we clearly do not have a group that reflects America’s workforce. And in the world of sports, they are covering a disproportionate number of athletes in basketball, football and baseball who are African-American or Latino. On the high school and college levels, more than 40 percent of the student-athletes are girls and women.”

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