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“Possibly Deadly” N.O. Actions Described “Blackwater Down: Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity,” is the title...

Public Editor, NAHJ Back Rivera Over Keller Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera picked up two defenders in his battle to get the New York Times...

Rivera Broadens Attack after “Editors’ Note” Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera, having secured what he called a “grudging” editors’ note from the New York Times...

Advice for Journalists Covering Miller Case Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, has some advice for journalists watching...

Dramatist’s Death Front-Page News in Big Cities “August Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will...

More Rebuilding Stories Focus on Racial Issues The publisher of the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that the paper expected to resume publication at its New...

Originally posted Oct. 6, 2005  Black Journalist at Helm in Old Dixie Capital Glenn Proctor, an associate editor of the Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and...

Chauncey Bailey Killers Both Sentenced to Life More Latinos in College Than Blacks, but With a Caveat Washington Post Starts Black-Oriented Section Online TV News...

Kentucky Columnist Ruffles Jackson Newsroom When Merlene Davis‘ son told her he wanted to go to Jackson State University, a historically black institution, she replied,...

Michael Jackson verdict: Instant analysis (Bruce Britt, BET.com) Michael Jackson verdict: Instant analysis (Trey Ellis, the Huffington Post) Michael Jackson verdict: Instant analysis (Jimi Izrael,...

Split Over Outcome Not as Severe as With O.J. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup instant-reaction poll Monday night showed “a major racial divide in attitudes” about the...

Indianapolis Star Lawsuit Pushes the Buttons A lawsuit filed by two former editorial writers this week against the Indianapolis Star makes some familiar charges —...