Judge Had Impounded the Juror List, Citing Privacy
Mia Navarro, Social-Justice Journalist, Dies at 69
Judge Halts DHS Curb on Visas for Foreign Journalists

“The NBC10 Investigators have uncovered new details about the one holdout juror from the Lindsay Clancy trial: Documents and interviews with family members reveal a history of domestic violence allegations,” the station said Friday. (Credit: YouTube)

Judge Had Impounded the Juror List, Citing Privacy

The Boston Globe Tuesday identified the Black holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy child-strangling case, saying he “has his own history with the justice system, including a past charge for domestic violence — raising deeper questions about the jury selection process in the high-profile case.”

The judge had indefinitely impounded the jury list, citing concerns about juror privacy, Nicole Moeder reported Monday for WJAR in Cranston, R.I. “The order comes after the alleged holdout juror was identified on social media,” she wrote.

Nevertheless, the juror’s photo is now circulating on social media.

The Globe’s Shelley Murphy, Chris Serres and Shannon Larson reported, “The juror is Michael P. Desronvil, 48, of Bridgewater. His personal legal issues were first reported by NBC10, though he was not identified by name.

“But the Globe confirmed his identity through photos published online, court records, and an interview with one of his fellow jurors. He had an active civil restraining order against him for allegedly assaulting his nephew and was facing eviction proceedings even as he was weighing evidence against Clancy, who admitted strangling her three children in January 2023 but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

“Repeated efforts by the Globe to reach Desronvil were unsuccessful.

“The disclosures about Desronvil’s legal troubles raise questions about the jury screening before Clancy’s trial and could factor into the selection process if another jury is empaneled; the first trial ended in a deadlock after seven days of deliberations, with Desronvil being the only holdout against an acquittal based on insanity. A mistrial was declared Sept. 4 after six weeks of trial.

“Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz declined to comment Monday on the jury selection process, according to a spokesperson.”

NBC10 Boston, the commercial name for WBTS-CD in Nashua, N.H., reported some of the juror’s past troubles Friday, but did not use his name, saying, “We are not identifying him at this time because he has chosen not to speak publicly and the jury list is currently impounded.”

The judge indefinitely impounded the jury list, citing concerns about juror privacy, Nicole Moeder reported Monday for WJAR. “The order comes after the alleged holdout juror was identified on social media,” she wrote.

Writing about the impoundment of the jury list, Moeder reported, “Former prosecutor Margaret McLean (pictured) said the online exposure raises serious concerns for jurors and the court system.

“She said the situation could discourage people from serving on future juries.

“ ‘Are we going to not want to serve on a jury because we’re afraid that our past could come out for everybody to see publicly?’ McLean said.

“It is unclear whether news organizations or social media users could face legal consequences for identifying the juror. McLean said she is not aware of a specific law that would make the media liable, but she suggested lawmakers may need to address the issue as high-profile trials draw intense public scrutiny.”

Journal-isms has reached out to the Globe for comment.

Mia Navarro, Social-Justice Journalist, Dies at 69

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N.Y. Times Vet Fought 9-Year Battle With Cancer

Mireya Navarro, whose passion for social justice guided 28 years of reporting for the New York Times and, later, launching a Spanish-language edition of the newsletter of the Brennan Center for Justice, has died after a nine-year battle with breast cancer, her husband, Jim Sterngold, disclosed Monday. The Intelius website lists her age as 69.

Navarro’s friend Maite Junco, vice-chancellor at the City University of New York, described Navarro, affectionately called ‘Mia,’ as “a fun-loving world traveler, fantastic cook and dancer, who journeyed in this world with impeccable taste and elegance.”

Also on Facebook, New York TImes colleague David Gonzalez wrote, “Loved that we could speak Spanish and be Boricua, in work and spirit, especially at the NYT, where we had arrived mere years after a recruiting AME said he couldn’t find any Latin journalists who wrote English.”  Navarro was a native of Puerto Rico. (Photo: Mireya Navarro on her birthday in 2025)

Sterngold passed along this message on that platform:

“I write to share the heartbreaking news that my wife, Mia Navarro, passed away yesterday after a 9-year battle with breast cancer. Mia was, through and through, a journalist and had a distinguished 28-year career at The New York Times.

“She was very devoted to the paper, loved her years there, loved her close friends and colleagues and loved that she could contribute to the journalism on many important topics, from AIDS and the environment to 9/11 and public housing in New York. She wrote an article in the Times series, ‘How Race Is Lived in America,’ which won a Pulitzer in 2001. She worked in Metro, was the Miami Bureau Chief for 5 years and worked in the Los Angeles bureau of the Times after we married so she could join me there.

“Mia had a wonderful post-Times career, too. She joined the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School as a senior media person then conceived, designed, built and then ran, as Editor in Chief, Brennan’s Spanish-language website, Brennan en Español. Her innovation significantly expanded Brennan’s reach into a community heavily impacted by the social justice issues Brennan illuminates and fights for.

“And a brief comment for those of you – perhaps all – surprised to learn that Mia was fighting cancer for so many years. Mia made a decision after she was diagnosed that she desperately wanted to live the life she wanted to live, on her terms, without having to constantly answer for her disease with friends. She knew this was uncommon and would perhaps be unpopular – and she respected others who chose differently — but she reflected deeply and felt this was the path to the best life she could enjoy under the circumstances. She lived on her terms.

“There will not be a funeral, but we are arranging a Memorial service. I’ll share details once we have them.”

Among Navarro’s affiliations were the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where she became a lifetime member, and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, of which she was a 1979 reporting alumna.

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Judge Halts DHS Curb on Visas for Foreign Journalists

A federal judge Monday blocked a Trump administration rule that would have shortened the length of visas for international students, academics and foreign journalists, writing, in part, “The possibilities for abuse are rampant — in particular, the obvious likelihood that the visas of foreign journalists who are critical of the government (or, more particularly, DHS officials) will not be renewed. [PDF]

“It also raises the very likely possibility of retaliation against American journalists working abroad.”

Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts found “extremely weak” the Department of Homeland’ Security’s rationale that it was combating fraud by people posing as  international students.

“As to journalists, DHS makes no real effort even to defend the new rule on its merits — in fact, it did not offer any national security or fraud-and-abuse evidence, or indeed provide any reasoned explanation, at all,” Saylor said.

The NewsGuild-CWA, an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), filed a lawsuit, joining other organizations, many of them educational institutions, challenging the DHS move. The National Writers Union and the IFJ were among those condemning this Trump administration move.

NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss called the temporarily halted policy an attack on journalists, and one “clearly designed to chill” their reporting.

“The Guild’s membership includes dozens of journalists in the United States working on I visas at several outlets including Le Monde, EFE, the CBC, Agence France-Presse and Reuters,” the Guild noted in a statement..

As Chris Cameron explained in the New York Times, “The rule would have upended a long-running system that allows millions of international students in the United States to stay until they complete their studies.

“The new rule would instead have capped the stay of a student, researcher, professor or other academic at four years — a change that would significantly affect most Ph.D. students. The rule would also have restricted foreign students from getting a second degree of the same level, changing their field of studies or transferring to a different university.

“Foreign journalists would also have been limited to visas of just 240 days. Students and journalists could apply for extensions, but approval is at the discretion of officials at the Department of Homeland Security, and a declined extension is unappealable.”

Saylor put implementation of the new DHS rules on hold for now without ruling on the merits of the case and scheduled another hearing for Oct. 2.

ID of Juror’s Race Raises New Issues in Clancy Case

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“New information has been reported about the ‘holdout’ juror in the Lindsay Clancy case,” Court TV reported Friday. “After a juror recently spoke out in an exclusive interview, the juror confirmed the holdout juror was a black man, and there was only one black man on the jury. Law&Crime’s Sierra Gillespie was inside the courtroom and now knows exactly who the holdout juror was.” (Credit: YouTube)

Differences in Holdout’s Life Experience at Work?

The disclosure that the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case is a Black man has changed the dynamic of the closely covered trial of the white woman who strangled her three children, her lawyers claiming she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, or temporary insanity.

The revelation took place on national television. The initial coverage focused on the interviewer, Gayle King.

“ ‘CBS Mornings’ anchor Gayle King was stunned when a juror in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial revealed the holdout was the lone black person on the panel,” the New York Post wrote Friday.

“During a discussion on the demographic details of the nine female and three male jurors that failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the triple murder trial, Paula Devlin explained how 11 members of the panel were white and just one was a person of color.

“Was the person of color a woman or a man?” King, 71, interjected during the Friday interview. . . .”

Then, on Friday’s 11 p.m. news, WBTS-CD in Nashua, N.H., known to viewers as NBC10 Boston, dropped a bombshell:

“Court documents and interviews with family members reveal a history of domestic violence allegations. We discovered a pending eviction case tied to months of not paying rent,” Ryan Kath reported.

“The NBC10 Boston Investigators also found an active restraining order against him, while he was listening to evidence in the case.

“Those details raise questions about the jury selection process and how the Plymouth County resident was picked for the high-profile case that ended in a mistrial.

“NBC10 Boston has repeatedly attempted to contact the juror at home, where his landlord is currently trying to evict him.”

The disclosure raised questions of violations of privacy,  with some warning that identifying the holdout invites harassment and threatens the safety of future jurors.

The Associated Press guidlines on racial identiication, used widely by other media outlets, say, “Include racial or ethnic details only when they are clearly relevant and that relevance is explicit in the story.”

That the holdout was a Black man in his thirties suddenly did become relevant.

“America Wasn’t Ready for a Black Man to Sit in Judgment of a White Woman Who Murdered Her Three Children” headlined a Saturday blog post by Stacey Patton, Ph.D., who teaches journalism at Morgan State University, an historically Black institution.

“I don’t know if this man is a father. But could he have been sitting there wondering what would have happened if a Black man had strangled his three children? Would anybody in that courtroom be working so hard to afford him that much psychological complexity and grant him mercy? Or would a Black man just be a monster with no backstory?

“I dunno.”

Marcela García, a Boston Globe columnist, had already put the issue into a Latina context on Friday. Garcia mentioned Amalfis Guzmán, originally from the Dominican Republic.

“Outside the Plymouth courthouse, pink-shirted women had rallied behind Lindsay with signs reading ‘the system failed you,’ ‘she needed help,’ and ‘you’re a good mom.’

“ ‘Who is standing up for the lives of those three innocent children?’ asked Guzmán.

“She worried that Cora, Dawson, and Callan were disappearing from a public conversation consumed by their mother. “Recognizing the seriousness of mental illness does not mean that we should stop protecting innocent lives or excuse what happened to those children,” Amalfis wrote. And: “Where were the grandparents, the aunts, and the uncles?”

“I’ve heard a version of that question in every conversation about this case with Latina relatives and friends: Shouldn’t the adults around a mother in crisis carry responsibility, too?”

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A video raising more profound questions (above) had drawn more than 70,100 “likes” on Facebook by Sunday afternoon. In it, Neal K. Shah, a healthcare researcher focused on caregiving for the aging, raises both race and class issues.

Shah argues that Black women, more often without a partner than white women, are expected to soldier through the same issues that Clancey faced without complaint. Further, a similar case involving a Black woman, Latarsha Sanders (pictured, below), as Glenn Jones, Kaitlin McKinley Becker and Amelia Fabiano reported Thursday for NBC Boston, had a different outcome.

“Last month, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court threw out the conviction, saying that Judge William Sullivan had erred, denying Sanders a fair trial because her entire psychiatric history was not shared with the jury.”

Could it be, asked Shah, that a Black man would look at the Clancy case and see elite privilege? The issue “highlights one of the deepest fault lines in our society,” Shah said.

Sarah J. Glover, vice president of news and civic engagement at Philadelphia’s WHYY public station, saw the video as well.

“If you are a working journalist or working at a media company, please take 20 minutes to watch/listen to this analysis by Neal K. Shah,” Glover, also a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, wrote Sunday on LinkedIn.

“I do not know his work nor do I agree/disagree with his analysis. He provides perspective and in-depth context in the Lindsay Clancy juror saga, thus I’m sharing to suggest news media take the effort to hear all points of view and consider in the framing of your stories. The world we live in remains complex with racial over/under tones. Footnote: I’d suggest he not refer to the juror as a minority but rather — a Black man — what he is. News media should follow the same.”

• Travis Andersen, John R. Ellement, Sarah Rahal, Shelley Murphy, Milton J. Valencia and Jenna Reyes, Boston Globe: Can there be consequences for a holdout juror? Our reporters answered your Lindsay Clancy trial questions.

• Emerald Pages: How NBC “Investigated” Only Black Juror After White Jurors’ Attacks

• Austin Mirmina, Stamford (Conn.) Advocate: Who is the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case? Here’s what we know

• Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News: ​Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offers asylum to Lindsay Clancy juror holdout 

The first issue of The New Yorker to publish after 9/11 featured Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s mournful black-on-black cover. In a new video, Mouly describes how she went about drawing the image to convey what felt like “the complete collapse of the world.”

9/11 Postscript: ‘Being Brown Remains Hazardous’

“Today, even at a point when 40 percent of the country is too young to remember the 9/11 attacks themselves, being brown remains hazardous to one’s career as a public figure,” wrote Garrett Graff, journalist and author of “The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

“One of Trump’s more frequent targets for bigoted insults has been Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Somali-born Muslim who at times has required a 24-hour security detail because of the threats against her. During 2021’s 20th anniversary of the attacks, she decried the way 9/11 has been turned against Muslims. ‘As Americans, as people who are living here, we were also attacked,’ she said. ‘This is our community, this is our country, and there were Muslims who lost their lives in those towers, who were Muslim firefighters, who lost their lives.’ ”

The consequences for being brown and/or Muslim extends not just to public figures. Leonard Greene and Rebecca White reported for the Daily News in New York Friday that “speaking at the 9/11 memorial ceremony, the son of one of the victims, in an impassioned plea, called on troublemakers to stop using the day to spread Islamophobia and hate. Yet, even as he shared his heartfelt message, a far-right rabblerouser was doing just that a few blocks away.”

Islamophobia was but one thread in the coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Journalists shared their own memories. Commentators said it marked the true beginning of the 21st century; some said it was a loss of the country’s innocence: It could, indeed, happen here.

News pegs included the release by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration of more than 170,000 pages of previously withheld city records about the air quality around the World Trade Center site after the attacks. “More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to the attacks than the nearly 3,000 people who were killed on Sept. 11,” Caitlyn Freeman wrote in the New York Times.

Graff wrote for Politico about how “9/11’s most lasting ‘forever war’ turns out to be the one launched on us, as citizens,” and that the Department of Homeland Security “has swelled over the last quarter-century into a giant, sprawling, inchoate amalgam of agencies with an annual budget so vast it exceeds the entire military budgets of all-but four countries — the U.S., China, Russia, and Germany — and larger than the entire annual government budgets of New Zealand, Hungary or the Philippines.”

Will Bunch added for the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Many recall that the president, George W. Bush, visited the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., to insist that U.S. Muslims ‘love America as much as I do,’ had no connection to the foreign extremists, and that ‘‘Islam is peace.‘

“Less well-remembered is the federal operation that targeted thousands of Muslims and South Asians — especially men under the age of 45 — in the weeks immediately after the attacks. They were detained, interrogated, fingerprinted, or subjected to deportation proceedings.

“In a new piece, the ‘war on terror’ historian Spencer Ackerman chronicled how agents went through a Brooklyn neighborhood known as Little Pakistan, dropping cards under doors with instructions such as: ‘This is the FBI. This is the INS. This is the NYPD. We need to talk. I have questions. Call me. ASAP.’  It’s believed that thousands found the post 9/11-climate so hostile that they left Little Pakistan…and the United States.  . . . ”

• Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News: Texas Muslims are navigating a new surge in Islamophobia, 25 years after 9/11

• Michael D. Bolden, LinkedIn: My reflections on September 11

• Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer: Islamophobia: A 9/11 legacy that refuses to die

• Democracy Now!: “Horror to Last a Lifetime”: Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in NYC 25 Years Ago Today

• Editorial, Washington Informer: Despite the Tragic Results, 9/11 Remains a Unique Day in U.S. History When the Only Colors That Mattered were Red, White and Blue

• David Friend, Vanity Fair: 9/11 Changed the World in Many Ways. It Also Spawned the Digital Media Era

• Garrett M. Graff, Boston Globe: Twenty-five years after 9/11, to be Muslim in America is to be suspect

• Renée Graham, Boston Globe: President Trump: The man who wasn’t there on Sept. 11

• Leonard Greene and Rebecca White, New York Daily News: Stop using 9/11 to ‘hate on Muslims,’ WTC victim’s son pleads

• Haitian Times: Remembering 9/11: The lives and losses that touched the Haitian community

• Phenix S Halley, the Root: 25 Years After 9/11: Remembering the 12 Black Firefighters Who Gave Their Lives to Save Others

• Karl W. Hardy, LinkedIn: Remembering 9/11 25 Years Later

• Ipsos Poll: 25 years later, the impact of 9/11 continues to resonate with Americans

• Roy S. Johnson, al.com: I was a New Yorker on 9/11. America was a different nation 25 years ago

• Marwan Kreidie, Philadelphia Inquirer: While our country mourned the thousands dead in New York, we Arab Americans also had to mourn our place in American society

• Maya King and Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times: Facing Islamophobia, Mamdani Keeps Focus on 9/11 Victims

• Latino USA: 9/11: The Day that Forever Changed U.S. Immigration Policy

• Newsweek: The Road to 9/11: Special Newsweek Edition

• Prophecy News Watch: A Generation Is Learning About 9/11 Without Learning Why It Happened

• South Asian Journalists Association: SAJA Marks 25th Anniversary of 9/11, Reflecting on Its Role Helping Journalists Understand South Asia 

• Liam Stack and Maya King, New York Times: After 9/11, Islamophobia Shaped a generation of Muslim New Yorkers

KNXV-TV in Phoenix, known as ABC 15, reports in 2024 on the city ‘s conclusion that a police investigation into the handcuffing of reporter Dion Rabouin was flawed. Investigators never asked whether race played a factor in Officer Caleb Zimmerman’s decision to detain the journalist and Zimmerman received retraining instead of suspension; the incorrect policy was applied, the city concluded. (Credit: YouTube)

Phoenix to Pay $100,000 in Reporter’s Handcuffing

Phoenix has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who was handcuffed and illegally searched by a Phoenix police officer while working on a story,” Dave Biscobing reported Thursday for KNXV-TV in Phoenix, known as ABC 15.

“The Phoenix City Council approved the settlement in a unanimous 9-0 vote, with no discussion. The vote was bundled with dozens of other agenda items.

“The settlement closes a case that began on November 23, 2022, when Phoenix police Officer Caleb Zimmerman handcuffed and searched Dion Rabouin outside a Phoenix Chase Bank branch.

“Rabouin was attempting to interview people about savings account interest rates but was unaware the sidewalk where he was standing was private property. At no point did the bank ask him to leave before police were called.”

Rabouin is now founder and CEO of a venture implementing digital transformations at legacy Black-owned newspapers known as The Black Press.

He wrote on LinkedIn, “I fought the police and I won. And I didn’t even have to get killed on video. . . .

“For a long time, I thought that I had to let the police disrespect, mistreat and abuse me. I thought that there was nothing I could do about it. For Black folks in America, this has long been our reality. Police can talk to us any way they want, push us around, beat us, kick us and laugh in our faces as they do it. Those days are ending.

“The police are public servants who exist to protect us — all of us. They can treat us with respect or they can cut the check.”

 

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Wayback Machine Says It Kept Vanished BET Articles

“In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web,” the Internet Archive announced.

“The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures searchable again.”

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Essence events at New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center are free. (Credit: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios)

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Short Takes

• Richard Prince and Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D. (pictured), at the Everett C. Parker Award and Lecture ceremonies Thursday in Washington presented by the United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry. The “Journal-isms” author, accepting the Parker award, spoke of the importance of believing in others and in oneself in this perilous time for journalists of color; Benjamin told the crowd that the people and companies behind the screen, not the technology itself, are responsible for the harms of artificial intelligence. More here. (Credit: United Church of Christ)

• “We have shut down the USC election cybersecurity programs effective immediately and I have stepped down as head of DC programs effective with our last program on Dec. 8,” veteran journalist Adam C. Powell III messaged Journal-isms Sunday, referencing the University of Southern California. “A new policy sent to all faculty and staff last week requires advance approval for classes or meetings with elected or appointed public officials and candidates for political office. That makes our work impossible, since that’s what we do every day — and we reach thousands of elected and appointed election officials and campaign workers every week. Some faculty are, to put it mildly, upset. . . .”

• “McClatchy, whose titles include The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, executed its most severe layoffs in years on Thursday, cutting newsroom staff at some papers by upwards of 40%,” Angela Fu reported Thursday for the Poynter Institute. More than 90 journalists across the country were affected, according to estimates by the unions representing journalists at various papers owned by McClatchy, which is owned by private investment firm Chatham Asset Management. . . .”

• “MLive Media Group has announced it will no longer produce printed editions of its eight newspaper titles, calling it the next step in its digital evolution and a response to long-shifting audience trends,” Danielle Salisbury reported for the company on Sept. 2 .”MLive’s eight titles are: The Ann Arbor News, The Bay City Times, The Flint Journal, The Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle and The Saginaw News. . . . “

Reporter and producer Yvonne Latty (pictured), director of Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting, is the recipient of the International Women’s Media Federation’s 2026 Gwen Ifill Award, the organization announced Thursday. “This award recognizes Latty — a journalist, author, filmmaker, and educator — for her transformative mentorship and commitment to expanding diversity in investigative reporting.”

• “The FBI monitored several phone calls between a Virginia congressman and Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas as part of an investigation, according to a statement from Rep. Suhas Subramanyam‘s office, Washington’s WJLA-TV reported Sept. 2. “Reporters with The Virginian-Pilot, Radio IQ and VPM [Virginia Public Media] have received letters that their phone calls with the senator were intercepted,” the Virginia Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists said in a letter of protest on Sept. 4. In July,  Kate Seltzer reported for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, “A U.S. District Court judge authorized the FBI to monitor state Sen. Louise Lucas’ phone communications between March 6 and April 5, according to sealed federal court records. Those communications included correspondence with journalists . . . .“

• “On August 11, a powerful wind storm tore through northern Indiana, toppling trees and utility poles and causing almost 375,000 outages across the Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s service territory,” Evlondo Cooper (pictured) reported Aug. 28 for Media Matters for America.  “As power returned elsewhere and remaining outages became increasingly concentrated in the predominantly Black city [of Gary], coverage increased. Once the focus shifted, CNN and MS NOW consistently connected Gary’s prolonged outage to race and poverty, while Fox News did not. Corporate broadcast segments documented many of the same hardships but rarely provided the climate and environmental justice context necessary for viewers to have a fuller understanding of the story.” From the Gary Post-Tribune: Gary moms recall challenges during power outage: ‘I gotta get to my kids’

“If you’re near Dayton, Ohio on September 25th, we’d be honored if you’d join us at the Dayton Masonic Center,” The Bulwark messaged on Saturday. We’re still sorting out some of the details, but here’s what you can expect: a memorable night out with The Bulwark crew, likely some special guests, and most importantly, helping us raise money for the Springfield community, whose response to such unnecessary cruelty has been so inspiring to us. Outside of a Senator with a spine and a sense of decency, which Ohio currently lacks, the best way to help Springfield and its Haitian community is time or money. See you there, I hope. Get Your Tickets Now!”

Karen Attiah (pictured), who won reinstatement to the Washington Post after an arbitrator’s decision last month, “was something of a problem employee,” former Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote Wednesday in his Substack column. “Her editors had been compiling a case for her dismissal at the time the Charlie Kirk matter exploded and [Post managers] bumbled into the picture, upending everything.  . . . I  finally reached Attiah late last night. She said she didn’t want to ‘re-litigate … the whole narrative of performance concerns.’ I feel like this was something I addressed deeply with editors. I stand behind my work. Forgive me for not being interested in getting into this aspect of things.’ As to any remaining tensions, she said: ‘Everyone is so focused on whether this will be awkward for me — shouldn’t it be awkward for the people who made this completely absurd decision about me? I feel my feelings are so much beside the point.’ ”

“The Society of Professional Journalists has selected six journalists as the 2026 fellows for the Dori Maynard Diversity Leadership Program,” SPJ announced Wednesday. Jolene Almendarez, Ebony Curry, Idris Mohammed, Damilola Oduolowu, Morgan Shay and Tiffany Tan will participate in the program, which connects journalists from underrepresented backgrounds with industry leaders and opportunities to build professional networks and become more involved with SPJ. The program honors the late Dori Maynard (pictured) a pioneering journalist, SPJ leader and advocate for diversity in newsrooms.”

• Victor Blackwell, CNN television news anchor,  is to be recognized “for excellence in journalism and for using the power of storytelling to illuminate the experiences, challenges and achievements of people and communities too often overlooked in the national conversation,” the National Organization of Concerned Black Men announced, providing details of its Sept. 17 celebration of its 50th anniversary.

• “Regina Mobley (pictured) is retiring from the world of TV news after a storied 45-year career in Hampton Roads living rooms,” Gavin Stone reported Sept. 3, updated Sept. 4, for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. “Mobley became a household name over her 26 years as an anchor and reporter with 13News Now, but joined WAVY-TV in 2020 following a brief stint in real estate. Mobley graduated from Norfolk State University in 1983 and got her start at local radio stations WNIS and WNOR before being hired as a reporter at WTKR, where she stayed for seven years. Her last WAVY broadcast will be Sept. 15.”

• “Three public figures were kidnapped in Haiti within a day, including journalist Wesly Renaud Jean (pictured), lawyer Caleb Jean-Baptiste and Stéphanie Paultre, director general of the National Office of Partnership in Education (ONAPE),” Juhakenson Blaise reported Wednesday for the Haitian Times in New York. “Jean, a journalist with Radio Télé Métropole, was kidnapped in Delmas 31 on Sunday, Sept. 6.  . . . ” The Committee to Protect Journalists, reporting on Jean, added Saturday that it had confirmed “that the kidnappers are seeking a ransom and have provided proof of life via telephone, according to Richard Widmaier, director of Radio-TV Metropole, who is also president of The National Association of Haitian Media (ANMH).”

• A panel on “Coverage on diversity in Mexican journalism” is on tap at the International Seminar on Investigative Journalism at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, to be held virtually Oct 6 and 7. It is to feature Aldo Castillo, director of Escenario Tlaxcala; Diana Manzo, Zapotec journalist and collaborator of Istmo Press; and David Adrián García, director of Editorial Altavoz LGBT.

• “Venezuela’s National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) on Sunday denounced that six journalists and workers in the sector ‘are still in court’ in the country,” Deutsche Welle reported Sept. 7. “In a post on the social network X, the organization demanded that there be full freedom for Jonathan Carrillo, Carlos Julio Rojas, Luis López, Gabriel González, Carlos Correa and for Rory Branker. In addition, there are ‘dozens who remain in exile, some of them under threat,’ according to the union, which called for ‘conditions for a safe return’ of these journalists to their country.”

• “Journalists who fled Guatemala after being targeted for covering their former boss’s trial can now return following court rulings. But they worry the forces that drove them into exile are still in place,” Silvia Higuera reported Sept. 2 for LatAm Journalism Review. “It has been a little more than three years of uncertainty, fear, anger and, especially, disappointment for a group of former employees of Guatemala’s now-defunct news outlet elPeriódico who are living in exile because of their coverage of the case against their former boss, José Rubén Zamora.” Zamora is under house arrest.

• • The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has established a Legal Support Fund with an allocation of approximately GHS 544,000 (about $47,575 U.S.), it announced Sept. 7. “The Fund responds to growing concerns about the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) against critical journalists and media organisations in Ghana. It will, therefore, provide legal assistance to journalists and media organisations who face litigation, judicial harassment and other legal threats arising from their legitimate professional work.”