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Film Critic Mitchell Doesn’t Know What He’ll Do Next Elvis Mitchell, explaining why he left his job as New York Times film critic, says “I...

Network Policy Now Favors Integrated Ensembles “An average of 52.5 million viewers tuned in for the hour-long ‘Friends’ finale last night, according to Nielsen Media...

Julian Bond Looks at Post-Brown White Houses News media commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision dutifully...

Survey Compares Staffs With Communities Here are the least-white communities with all-white newsrooms: The Independent, Gallup, N. M., circulation area is 93 percent nonwhite. The...

Editor Going Overseas; Critic Part-Time to Harvard When last we left Elvis Mitchell, he had quit his position as film critic for the New York...

Don’t Ask Who’s “Politically Correct” Now You won’t be able to count on it, but the people who bleat about the “liberal media” and “political...

Vegas Staffers Didn’t Get the Memo on Blackface “Life continues to be difficult for management at KVVU Channel 5, the Las Vegas Fox affiliate,” reports...

Black Media Barons Keep Sharpton Bid Alive “Al Sharpton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination has so far attracted little support from voters, but plenty...

ASNE Pulls Out of Hampton U. Over Confiscation The American Society of Newspaper Editors today told Hampton University it was pulling from that campus its...

ASNE Chief Cites Lack of Contrition at Hampton One reason the American Society of Newspaper Editors pulled its high-school journalism program from Hampton University is...

Publisher Expecting “Candor” in Gerald Boyd Book Now that he has sealed a deal for his memoirs, Gerald M. Boyd will be working with an...

Hampton U. Chief Unremorseful; Caldwell Angry Hampton University Provost and Acting President JoAnn Haysbert has reacted to the cancellation of the American Society of Newspaper...