Diversity and Its Discontents: The Bumpy Road to Recognition, Representation and Reality

Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte was an assistant editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she was responsible for expanding coverage of Mexico and Central America, as well as that of U.S. minority communities. She is now an Associate Professor in Journalism, Latin American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and publishes frequently in mass media and academic publications. She recently completed a project funded by the Ford Foundation examining journalism ethics, intellectual diversity and professional development: Diversity Disconnects: From Classroom the Newsroom. It draws on two years of research to fully assess efforts over the past 25 years to integrate newsrooms and diversify press content. She received her PhD and MA in American Studies from Yale University.