The historic 2008 presidential election, which resulted in the election of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as the nation's first black president, has helped to accelerate the increase of diversity in the media.
“With Obama's campaign, [media outlets] had to bring in more African-American contributors, whether right or left,” says Gwendolyn Quinn, founder of the African-American Public Relations Collective. “It doesn't work if those always reporting the news and commenting on the news are not representative of the people making the news.” ...