Watch on St. Louis-Post Dispatch/More LA Times layoffs

We’re watching the St. Louis-Post Dispatch after another Black journalist, Andre Jackson, assistant managing editor for business, has left the paper six months after seven Black journalists left, taking the paper’s offer of voluntary early retirement. Former St. Louis-Post Dispatch home editor, Jamila Robinson told Journal-isms in September that, "It's a very difficult time for people of color at this newspaper." She contended that the newspaper articulates the right sentiments about diversity but they weren't reflected in the people populating the executive suites or in promotions.” Editor Arnie Robbins disagreed, saying, "We've made a real commitment to diversity in our hiring and our content . . . I'm proud of the work we've done in terms of diversity," though he said, "we want to do better."
In the most recent census of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Post-Dispatch reported 16.0 percent people of color: 3.5 percent Asian American, 11.3 percent African American, 1.2 percent Hispanic and no Native Americans.

2 More Black Journalists Leave L.A. Times
Black journalists Mike Terry, longtime sportswriter, and Gregory W. Griggs, a reporter in the suburban Ventura County Bureau, left the Los Angeles Times on Friday after accepting buyouts. Their departures further diminish the diversity at the newspaper, which has now lost eight black journalists since June 1, 2007.
- Journal-isms