The book is a compelling, sobering and ultimately optimistic look at the state of America's news and newsroom diversity.
"Eric Newton" is an United States/American journalism/journalist and Senior Adviser to the President at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization created by one of the founding families behind the Knight Ridder newspaper group.
Newton earned a Bachelor of Arts/B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University in 1979 and his master's degree in international studies from the University of Birmingham.
He joined the Oakland Tribune as a copy boy in 1977. Turned down for a job as a reporter there in 1979, he edited newspapers in Mill Valley, California/Mill Valley and Richmond, California/Richmond before returning to the Tribune as a copy editor in 1984. Within six years he was running the Tribune newsroom.
Newton was city editor, assistant managing editor or managing editor of the Tribune when it won more than 150 awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He has since been a Pulitzer Prize juror four times and has written a book on Pulitzer Prize-winning photography.
More Eric Newton on Wikipedia.A billion dollars may sound like a lot of money, but compare it to the $1 trillion spent globally on weapons every year. The world is spending a lot more on destructive technology than it is trying to get people to talk peacefully among themselves.
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