Category : Maynard Institute archives

Army Presence Adds to Buzz at NAHJ Convention The National Association of Hispanic Journalists ended its convention in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., over the weekend with...

Katrina anniversary coverage on ABC, BET, Black Family Channel, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, Tom Joyner’s Reach Media, National Public Radio, NBC and TV...

Election-night coverage plans of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, NBC, NPR and PBS Editor Leaves With “Grave Concern” About Cuts Debra Adams Simmons, the...

4 Black Programs, 2 Others Told They Need Work . . . Journalism programs at four historically black colleges and universities received provisional accreditation today...

Detroit’s Perry Farrell Exits Quietly, if Angrily Just over a year after the Detroit Free Press endured its Mitch Albom affair, an 18-year sportswriter left...

Columnists Ask How We Ended Up Where We Are Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald is outraged that more than 50 years...

Only African American to Rise to No. 2 at N.Y. Times Gerald M. Boyd, the only black journalist to rise to the highest newsroom ranks...

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,...

For Second Year, Disparity Widest Since 1988 A gap persists between white and nonwhite holders of baccalaureate degrees when they seek jobs in communications, according...

“Why Not Just . . . Call Me an Uncle Tom?” The op-ed piece by Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio and commentator...

Jamal Watson Says Case Was “He Said, She Said” The former executive editor of the New York Amsterdam News has pleaded guilty to a felony...

Black CBS Colleagues Give Rather Thumbs Up Raylena Fields, a producer at CBS News for 13 years, filed a complaint against the network in April,...