Fortune union asks management to commit to diversity

The union representing Fortune editorial staffers has asked the business magazine to commit to diversity in its collective bargaining agreement.

In a statement, the union said, “Management must commit to enforceable diversity language in its contract now, for the good of its employees and journalism as an industry.”

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.