The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that

　　has recognized the need for change and done something about

　　it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity

　　of the communities to which they provide information.

　　It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk S1._______

　　losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.

　　Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial S2.________

　　minorities, the paper has put into place policies and

　　procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3._______

　　underlying reason for the change is that for information to be

　　fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the S4._________

　　same kind of population that reads it.

　　A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and

　　photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times' S5.________

　　content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about

　　diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content S6.________

　　audit(審查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of

　　representation of woman and people of color in photographs. S7._________

　　Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too

　　infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate

　　number of negative articles. The audit results from S8.________

　　improvement in the frequency of majority representation and S9.________

　　their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a S10._______

　　result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.

　　The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle

　　Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award

　　for excellence in managing change.

　　參考答案：

　　S1.it→they

　　S2.percents→percent

　　S3.maintain→maintaining

　　S4.subjective→objective

　　S5.meets→meet

　　S6.an→/

　　S7.woman→women

　　S8.from→in

　　S9.majority→minority

　　S10.with→as