Indiana Probing Mpozi Tolbert Death
Agency Checking for Workplace Violations “Indiana state officials are investigating whether The Indianapolis Star violated state workplace safety requirements, following the death of a Star...
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Miami Herald Publisher Resigns
Action Follows Controversy Over Gov’t Payments “Jesus Díaz Jr. will resign today as president of the Miami Herald Media Co. and publisher of The Miami...
A Journalist Confronts His AIDS
African Writer Ends Silence, Organizes “It was after constant malaria attacks, recurrent fevers and hiccups in 2002 that Elvis Basudde Kyeyune, a journalist with Uganda’s...
Subway Kills Writer with Bipolar Illness
Valerie Burgher, METPRO Grad, Dead at 34 Valerie Burgher, a New York-based black journalist and writer who battled bipolar disorder, was hit by a train...
Ray Nagin: “Don’t Be Hoodwinked”
New Orleans Mayor Says Stories Remain Untold “Facing a cavernous meeting room packed with black journalists Friday, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin delivered a...
Armstrong Williams, Justice Dept. Settle
Pundit to Pay $34,000, Declares “This Is Over” The Justice Department has reached a settlement with conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, closing a yearlong investigation into...
McClatchy’s “Going to Get It Right”
Stuart a Consultant; Olmstead Starts Own Firm The McClatchy Co. assumed control of Knight Ridder newspapers this week, making it the nation’s second-largest newspaper company....
Chideya Replaces Gordon at NPR
Staffers Relieved “News & Notes” Will Stay on Air Ed Gordon, who had criticized National Public Radio for what he said was its failure to...
Will We Get Back to Katrina?
A Mayor-Elect Says Media Misread Election Ronald V. Dellums wondered aloud why the news media did not relate the outcome of the midterm elections last...
Ishmael Reed’s Counterpunch
Social Critic Not Through Criticizing Journalists Novelist and social critic Ishmael Reed, who criticized several leading black journalists last month in a piece that prompted...
Savoy to Pay Its Writers
Contributors to Get Checks After Year’s Wait The Chicago-based incarnation of Savoy magazine, which went on “hiatus” after its June/July 2005 issue, publishing for less...
U.S. Ethics, Cuban Journalists
Miami Publisher’s Exit Laid to Clashing Customs “The divergent policies for two newsrooms under the same roof lie at the crux of the resignation of...