Category : Maynard Institute archives

Election-night coverage plans of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, NBC, NPR and PBS Midterms Could Also Affect Media Ownership Issue   As Election Day...

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...

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...

Moving on from NPR, Host Wants Own Talk Show Ed Gordon, dropped this month by National Public Radio as host of its “News & Notes”...

Essay Urges, “Send N—— on Their Way”     The current issue of Esquire magazine—”Man at His Best”—features an essay called “The Manifesto of Ascendancy...

New Challenge Filed Against NFL’s Redskins “American Indians have filed a new challenge to the Washington Redskins’ trademark, saying the NFL team’s name is racially...

5 Journalists of Color Accept “Very Generous” Offer Five journalists of color are among 64 newsroom employees accepting a buyout offer at the Cleveland Plain...

Focus to Shift to Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Gays       After a “town meeting” in southeast Texas on racism involving African Americans, CNN announced...

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, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, NBC and PBS Plans for Sept. 11 Anniversary Editor Replaced After 8 Years Leading Newsweek Mark Whitaker, editor of...

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...

Critics Target Coverage, TV Station Bombings “The International Federation of Journalists today condemned Israeli air raids on Saturday that hit transmission stations used by several...