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E.J. Mitchell Gets Top News Job at Tennessean Everett J. Mitchell II was named vice president/news and editor of The Tennessean in Nashville today, the...

Post-Unity, Industry Appears Not to Be “Serious” “Diversity, they pledged, was a priority. It is good for everyone and crucial to the industry?s future. Diversity,...

Session to Follow Flap Over Diversity Comment The controversy over a statement to an in-flight magazine by new “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams has...

Execs Meet with NABJ Leaders in New York NBC News committed “to future participation in our NABJ Media Institute” and to “continued dialogue about hiring...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: Book-Buying Season A number of black journalists have been toiling away at nonfiction books throughout the year, in hopes that they’ll...

Newspapers Abandoned the Ex-Star Reporter Gary Webb, the onetime San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter whose series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine trade...

His Interviewer Asks Who Network Is Targeting Talk-show host Tavis Smiley left his National Public Radio show Thursday without an extended goodbye to listeners, but...

Wickham, Dawkins Turn Over Reins at Joyner Site Radio personality Tom Joyner‘s Web site, BlackAmericaWeb.com, is changing the leadership of its news pages as veteran...

Decision Ends Idea of Filling Smiley’s Host Job Ed Gordon‘s new show for National Public Radio has been picked up by nearly all the stations...

A year in the quest for a news media that looks like America: 1. Layoffs and cutbacks It’s been three years since Jay T. Harris...

After Tsunami, Freelance Service Swings Into Action Dozens of news organizations seeking to cover this week’s earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean have turned...

Some Tie “Ghoulish” Photo Choices to Race Depending on the source, the news media are showing admirable restraint in their images of tsunami victims or...