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Standards Raised for Use of Anonymous Sources Newsweek magazine’s chairman and editor-in-chief, Richard M. Smith, told readers today that the magazine is tightening up on...

Originally published May 25, 2005 Few of Color Win for “Disadvantaged” Reporting It took 25 years — until Bill Clinton‘s presidency — for a white...

Editors Explain Why Bigotry Makes the Paper When a letter writer to the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., called columnist Betty Bayé a “porch monkey,” Bayé...

Past NABJ President Has No New Job Lined Up Will Sutton, a deputy managing editor of North Carolina’s Raleigh News & Observer, former editor of...

Wilkins: Anonymous Sources Can Have Real Value “The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was ‘Deep...

Report Says Many Papers Peaked in ’90s “Newsroom diversity is below its peak levels at most daily newspapers in the US, including three-fourths of the...

Top 2 Editors Leave Merged Project Less than six months after Africana.com shut down its Web site and merged into AOL BlackVoices, the editor of...

The Day “negro” Got Its Capital “N” Some black history calendars note that yesterday signified a milestone in the annals of journalism and race: They...

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 —...