Racial Gap Persists in Landing Journalism Jobs
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...
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Juan Williams Blasts Critics
“Why Not Just . . . Call Me an Uncle Tom?” The op-ed piece by Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio and commentator...
CNN Taking Bigotry Shows on Road
Focus to Shift to Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Gays After a “town meeting” in southeast Texas on racism involving African Americans, CNN announced...
Uncle Sam’s “Relationship-Building”
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...
Bush Acknowledges Poverty as Issue
President Interviewed by Black Radio Network President Bush has told black radio listeners he realizes that “the core issues of poverty” must be...
Networks’ Plans for Election Night
Correspondents Fan Out for Coverage of Midterms Following are news releases from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, Tom Joyner’s Reach Media, NBC, NPR and...
Sportswriter Leaves the Building
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...
Lagging on Station Ownership
Study: Consolidations Squeeze Out People of Color Despite gains that people of color have made in other industries, their ownership of broadcast stations remains woefully...
Bebe Moore Campbell Goes “Home”
Everyday Black Speech Became “. . . an Art Form” “The walls of First AME, Los Angeles’ oldest African American church, could barely contain the...
A Working Anchor’s Pregnancy
Critics Debate Implications of Vargas Move The day after ABC News announced that Elizabeth Vargas would step down as co-anchor of “World News Tonight” and...
Black Paper Goes to War Zone
Afro-American Emulates World War II Precedent The Afro-American Newspapers, like most of the black press largely missing in action in covering the wars in Iraq...
“The Source” — of What?
Court Hears Tawdry Portrayal of Hip-Hop Magazine “The Source magazine — the so-called ‘Bible’ of the hip-hop industry — is more like Sodom and Gomorrah,...