Category : Maynard Institute archives

Election Night coverage plans of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, Tom Joyner’s Reach Media, NBC, NPR and PBS Prison Writer Factors in Fame, “the...

Sorting Out the “Day Without Immigrants” The “Day Without Immigrants,” or “Day of Absence,” has come and gone. What’s left is sorting out the role...

Activists Say “Black Man” Portrayals Ignore a Crisis Bill Cosby, the star speaker on a panel of experts, lambasted the Washington Post Tuesday for its...

Media “Carnival” Over NFL Star Decried, Defended The latest drama involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens — the report of a suicide attempt and...

Body Condemns French Honor for Death Row Inmate The polarizing case of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, onetime president of the Philadelphia Association of Black...

Briton Apparently First of African Descent to Die Two members of a CBS News team were killed today in Iraq, including veteran cameraman Paul Douglas,...

Networks Recruit, Pay Stipends to Attract Interns NBC News, embarrassed by the disclosure that the summer internship class at “NBC Nightly News” had no students...

Consolidations Planned in News Operations “Struggling under weak ad sales and profits, NBC Universal set a structuring plan to slash annual expenses by $750 million...

Updating: Two Half-Hour Shows to Air Over Weekend BET News announced Friday that two specials on entertainer James Brown, who died on Christmas, will air...

Black Enterprise Enforces Its Dress and Hair Code A couple of months ago, Susan L. Taylor, editorial director of Essence magazine, the nation’s leading magazine...

ABC, BET, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, NBC, NPR, PBS and Public Radio International Plans for Sept. 11 Anniversary Essence Story Is Writer’s Most...

Viewing Historic Midterm Through Diversity’s Lens The midterm elections Tuesday gave journalists a seismic shift in Congress to report; at a few papers, columnists of...