When PR professionals in the New York area met recently for one of PRWeek's regional roundtable discussions, an issue high on the radar was, as always, the industry's lack of diversity.
"But we're trying," agency executives lament, citing recruitment and internship programs, leadership workshops, and other diversity-focused initiatives.
Even as the industry strives to create more multi-ethnic and multicultural work environments, PR executives say diversity is nowhere close to where anyone wants it to be, and segregation - by way of practices ...