Managing editor, island paper named diversity leaders

10.14.06

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Sharon Rosenhause, managing editor of the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the Pacific Daily News on Guam have been named winners of the fifth annual Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership.

The awards, which recognize leadership in news content and in recruiting, developing and retaining journalists of color, will be presented at the Associated Press Managing Editors association convention Oct. 26 in New Orleans.

The honors are given by APME and the American Society of Newspaper Editors in partnership with the Freedom Forum, which provides the funding. Each honoree receives $2,500 and a sculpture representing leadership.

"This year's winners show a diversity of newsroom approaches," said Charles Overby, Freedom Forum and Diversity Institute chairman and CEO. "They show there is more than one way to promote inclusion in news coverage and in newsroom staffing — and that is what diversity is all about."