The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (http://www.nahj.org) is a website that seeks to further the progress of Hispanic journalists in America. They do this by providing Hispanic-American journalism news, job opportunities for both students and professionals, various conventions to attend, and even providing their members with a stylebook to utilize.
The minority in journalism has always been a sensitive subject, as it has always been difficult for one in a minority group to advance within their field. Websites and organizations such as this are vitally important to the advancement of the diversity of the field of journalism. They provide an avenue for success, starting at the youngest level by providing scholarships and job opportunities for students, and attempting to ensure success after school by providing even more jobs for graduates and veterans in the field.
Before organizations such as this existed there was very little diversity within the journalistic world, and little chance for diversity to ever get a strong foothold in the industry.
Diversity should be held dear to every journalists heart, because their job is to present the news. However, there could be multiple angles and perspectives on each and every news story that would not be reported on without diversity. The more diversity within the world of journalism, the more likely it is for the stories to become increasingly unbiased. The lessening of the bias in journalism ultimately should be the goal of every journalist, because when unbiased news is presented, then the recipient of the news is allowed to think instead of simply swallow the news fed to them.
The United States is based on the success of diversity and so is the world of journalism. "United we stand, divided we fall."
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