Sixteen of New York City's top ad agencies have agreed to recruit more minorities, especially blacks. They'll also diversify senior management and let city officials monitor them for three years. The agreements signed with the city's Human Rights Commission offer a rare glimpse inside one of New York's core industries -- and reveal that its work force doesn't look much like the nation. About 3 percent of advertising staffers nationally were black in 2005, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor data, with 1.6 percent Asian and 7.5 percent Latino. In upper management, the diversity is virtually nonexistent, data show.
See "Ad Agencies Look to Recruit Minorities", Associated Press, The New York Times, September 24, 2006