Closing a Chapter of Newspaper History

This concluding chapter summarizes the failures of the ASNE to deliver on its promise of newsroom diversity since the inception of its new hiring initiative. It reflects on the highlights, shortcomings, and ultimately the denouement of this chapter of ASNE (and newspaper) history as it charts the decline of the diversity project. At the same time, the chapter also takes a look at the declining newspaper industry which, while not wholly at fault for the failure of the diversity project, had contributed to it in part. The chapter looks into many other reasons for the failure as well, and concludes with hope for future possibilities even in a world where technological advances have begun to push newsprint culture to the margins in favor of a more globalized media culture.