Short takes 9/14/19
Short Takes Eritrea Ranked World’s Most Censored Country (Credit: Time) About 250 news outlets around the world have committed to a week’s worth of focused...
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That Line About Blacks in Prison vs. Slavery
Sen. Booker should drop misleading statistic; . . . where was the student newspaper?; $3.6 million for racial equity in journalism; reporting uncovers a lost...
Copy Editor Quits Over Front-Page ‘N-Word’
Overruled after seeing slur on page proof; stressful time for Latino journalists: extra security as NAHJ meets in San Antonio; participation up to 22.8% in...
Uproar Over Race at NPR
News leader’s statement ‘baffling and insulting’; ‘We, staffers of color . . . write as one voice’; response rrom Nancy Barnes, senior V.P. of news...
NABJ Helped Old-Head Rapper ‘Luke’ Campbell Stop Dissing Kamala Harris
What about 'As Nasty as They Wanna Be,' Luke?; Will Sutton named columnist at New Orleans paper; Editor and Publishesr Sold; Nu Yang becomes editor...
Brexit Stories Miss Racial Connection
‘The driving force . . . was racism’; ‘Words matter,’ says anchor compared to gorilla; USA Today journeys to Angola for 1619 project; Washington Post...
NAHJ Disinvites Fox News From Convention
Comments about Latino 'invasion' called last straw; N.Y. Times scrambles to meet demand for '1619'; be careful in describing what happened in 1619; mother accused...
NABJ’s Tucker ‘Out Hustled’ Competitors
New leader as black journalists exert more clout (8/15/19)...
With Millennials the Focus, NABJ Demolishes Attendance Records
More than 4,000 flock to Miami (8/14/19)...
Metro Seven Join NABJ Hall of Fame
The Washington Post Metro Seven were inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Black Journalists on Aug. 9, 2019, at a...
Public to Have Access to Ebony Photos
Consortium of foundations ponies up $30 million; Trump insults Yamiche Alcindor as 'untruthful'; reporting helps bring down Puerto Rico governor; CBS puts spotlight on toxic...
Trump Forces Debate Over Nature of Racism
Media labeling of tweets seems unprecedented; how Nixon helped finance Black Enterprise; owners can’t sell Univision fast enough; media outlets ignoring English-speaking Latinos; no clear...