American Sociey of News Editors, which has regularly monitored diversity in newspaper newsrooms, plans to conduct a survey of such elements for online news outlets.

“This summer, ASNE will conduct a new census to measure ethnic and gender diversity in online news organizations,” the group said in a notice on its website. “We are asking for help from our members and others to ensure that the list of news organizations we are surveying is as broad as possible, realizing, nevertheless, that we must begin with a clearly defined group.”

The online outlets it hopes to survey include:

American Independent
Annarbor.com
AOL News
Austin Bulldog
Bay Citizen
Big Money
California Watch
Capital Times
Center for Investigative Reporting
Center for Public Integrity
CNSNews.com
Connecticut Mirror
Crosscut Public Media
Daily Beast
Daily Caller
Gawker
Global Post
Honolulu Civil Beat
Huffington Post
Investigate West
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
MinnPost.com
New Haven Independent
New River Voice
ProPublica
The Root
Salon Media
Salon.com
Seattle PostGlobe
SeattlePI.com
SF Public Press
Slate
Spot.Us
St. Louis Beacon
Talking Points Memo
Texas Tribune
Texas Watchdog
Tucson Citizen
TucsonSentinel.com
Voice of San Diego
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
Yahoo! News