Author : richard

Choice of Models Flips Pattern in Fashion Magazines For the July issue of Italian Vogue, Steven Meisel has photographed only black models. “In a reverse...

Black Entertainment Television has not aired its tamed-down version of NYOIL’s “Y’all Should All Get Lynched,” but its animated video, which accuses current rappers of...

Jock Says He Was Noting Unfairness of Arrests Radio host Don Imus opened his show Tuesday morning expressing amazement that some of his critics didn’t...

Should We Call Ghostface Killah “Mr. Killah?” “The New York Times rarely refers to rock stars such as Alice Cooper, Moby, and Elton John by...

Group’s Second Survey Awards “F” on Gender A report on the diversity at newspaper sports departments and sports Web sites shows that “in 2008, 94...

Unity Attendance Adjusting to Industry Turmoil     Four years ago at the Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital, the president of Unity: Journalists...

Survey of Blacks Reports Continuing Dissatisfaction “Blacks are not satisfied with how they are portrayed by the media. Only 29 percent agree that the mainstream...

CNN Survey Finds Gap Between Blacks, Whites Whites and African Americans start from such different places in discussing race that it should be no surprise...

A McClatchy Managing Editor Joins Buyout Exodus As news outlets stepped up notices of buyouts and layoffs, the National Association of Black Journalists on Thursday...

Media Use Euphemisms in Ex-Senator’s Obituaries David S. Broder, the dean of Washington political reporters, said it in his Washington Post column when Sen. Jesse...

There They Go Again: Blacks Hardly Exist as Media Retell Reagan Story (2004) Aides Still Campaigning; Media Won’t Use “R” Word It’s no surprise that...

Tough Times Not Seen as Barrier to Broadening Pool Amid alarms that economic troubles are putting newsroom diversity on the back burner, Marcus Brauchli, the...