ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The opportunities for people of color and women working in sports departments at newspapers and websites are showing slight improvements.
But according to a report released Friday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports the departments are still largely dominated by white males.
The report again gave the outlets that belong to the Associated Press Sports Editors a C-plus for racial hiring and its third consecutive F for gender hires in jobs including sports editor, columnist, reporter and copy editor.
The bi-annual report is the fourth done on APSE since 2006 and looks at numbers from 2012.
Last year, 90.9 percent of sports editors, 83.9 percent of columnists and 86.3 percent of reporters were white. Also, 90.4 percent of sports editors were men.
