Terry Mattingly, Director of the Washington Journalism Center for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and a religion columnist for Scripps Howard News Service (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Associated Press reports a story describing a possible trend in newsrooms to avoid cultural diversity by excluding evangelicals. If a journalism student is an evangelical, and is politically moderate-to-conservative, she should expect to have a tough time obtaining and keeping a job in mainstream, non-religious journalism.

“Journalism has become more of a white-collar field that draws from elite colleges,” said Terry Mattingly, director of the Washington Journalism Center for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and a religion columnist for Scripps Howard News Service. “While there’s been heavy gender and racial diversity … there’s a lack of cultural diversity in journalism,” including religion.

It’s unclear exactly how many evangelicals work in newsrooms, and federal laws against religious discrimination prevent news managers from asking…