The suit was filed in 1994 on behalf of more than 1,400 minority employees.

The settlement touches on almost every element of the company's relationship with its minority employees.

In the last round of 22 promotions, half went to minority employees, he said.

He gave several examples of minority employees who have worked on his radio and television shows.

More important, an increasing number of the university's minority employees are executives.

A lawyer for the minority employees who brought the discrimination suit said that the company's efforts did not go far enough.

The executives discuss the minority employees who brought the suit.

Since then, officials say, the paper has brought the proportion of minority employees in the newsroom to 20 percent.

This year, out of 97 managers, 25 are minority employees, or 26 percent.

In addition, the total number of newspapers with any minority employees grew, however slightly, from 55.9 percent to 56.5.