Corporate culture, minority hiring, and newspaper coverage of affirmative action

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 159-176

  Ankney, Raymond N ^a   Procopio, Deborah A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Asne; Diversity; Minority Hiring; Newspapers

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544460918     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646170304278     Document Type: Article

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