Category : Maynard Institute archives

NBC Is First with Whites, Last with Blacks NBC’s Brian Williams “Is First Among Anchors,” a New York Times headline reported Monday, citing new “sweeps...

D.C.’s Post Finds Topic Ripe for Discussion A year-long Washington Post series on “Being a Black Man” debuted over the weekend to enthusiastic responses from...

Network Cites Efforts to Help Host “Improve” National Public Radio is reacting to host Ed Gordon’s criticism of its handling of his “News and Notes”...

“Meet the Press” Answer Is News, But What Next? “Hinting about his White House ambitions has fueled a media frenzy in the weeks leading up...

Mpozi Tolbert — Tall, Genial, Dreadlocked — Mourned “Mpozi Mshale Tolbert, 6 feet 6 inches tall with dreadlocks down to his waist, never blended in....

Editor Says, “You Just Have to Build Up Again” The Dallas Morning News today informed “a little more than 100” newsroom employees that their applications...

Publisher Characterizes New Book, Fox Programs The publisher of the new book in which O.J. Simpson hypothesizes about how he could have committed the 1994...

Originally published in May 2006   Paper Regrets Role of Predecessor in 1916 Atrocity Today at 11 a.m. Texas time, a small interracial organization met...

Public Editors Tackle Coverage Complaints In their weekend columns, newspapers’ reader representatives grappled with the coverage accorded the war in Lebanon, while some columnists of...

Editor Baquet Agrees to Stay, Argue Against Cuts “The Tribune Co. forced out Los Angeles Times Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson this morning, a little more...

Signal Drops Out on CNN Show About Bigotry “With much anticipation, some Vidorians waited to see yet another television special about dealing with the stigma...

Newsmagazines Paint Hispanics as “Intrusion” Rafael Olmeda, an assistant city editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel who says that “as long as concerns over diversity...