Author : richard

Few Black Editors Found at Mainstream Magazines A survey of the editorial leadership of American magazines “has found only nine top editors — defined by...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes?: Serious Again With fall approaching, summer reading gives way to more serious fare. Since it’s been a while since the last...

Derek Ali, 47, Was Working as Disc Jockey Derek Ali, a reporter at Ohio’s Dayton Daily News and a past president of the Dayton Association...

Editor Asks, How Many Reporters Can Claim That? The guest book on the Dayton Daily News Web site went from 14 pages to 24 —...

Changes Mind, Baltimore Businessman New Owner After winning the bidding for Heart & Soul, the black women’s health and fitness magazine auctioned off as part...

Chicago’s Journalist-Activist Lu Palmer Was 82 In the latest in a string of passings of activist black journalists, Chicago’s Lu Palmer, who once declared, “I...

Gift Goes Toward Media Studies at Black College “Texas Southern University received one of its largest donations ever from an individual Monday when Tavis Smiley,...

NAHJ Awards Go to Stories on Immigration, Iraq “We’re hearing a lot of sad, sad stories,” reporter Mandelit del Barco of National Public Radio said...

Another Quits to Pursue Religious Studies Marlene L. Johnson, an assistant metro editor at the Washington Times, is retiring from the paper next week to...

Grown-Up “Crack Babies” Belie Media Predictions of ’80s “Crack hit the streets in 1984, and by 1987 the press had run more than 1,000 stories...

Newspaper Co. Has 18.6% Journalists of Color The Gannett Co., announcing the results of its annual “All-American Review,” told its member papers that 36 newspaper...

Embattled Student Outlet Lacks Editorial Adviser The student newspaper at Hampton University, which won national attention last year when the administration confiscated an issue, failed...