Category : Maynard Institute archives

House’s Katrina Report Knocks Early Coverage The House Republicans’ blistering report (PDF) last week on the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina also skewers the...

Black Enterprise Founder Names His Son CEO Earl G. Graves Sr., founder of Black Enterprise magazine, yesterday named Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. as the company’s...

People of Color Not Considering Knight Papers In 1983, Robert C. Maynard became the first African American to own a mainstream daily newspaper when the...

Published Nov. 4, 2005 None Changed Course to Show Rosa Parks Funeral Flipping through the channels as funeral services for civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks...

Chris Houston, 42, “Managed Our News Desk” Assignment editor Chris Houston of WUSA-TV in Washington died Saturday of pancreatic cancer, the station announced over the...

Susan Taylor Protests School’s No-Braids Policy Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., used the phrase “much ado about a hairdo” to describe the brouhaha that ensued after...

Verdict Over Unapproved Fliers: Community Service “While many Hampton University students were still asleep or getting ready for an early-morning class, about 40 gathered on...

Editors Suspect Retaliation for Reporting on China “The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by attacks and threats against ethnic Chinese journalists based in or...

Newspapers Thought We’d Want to Know The death of velvet-voiced crooner Lou Rawls claimed front-page space in many newspapers Saturday, and according to three editors...

On Diversity Goal, Auburn, NYU Found Lacking When the accrediting committee for journalism programs met two weekends ago, all four of the programs before it...

Time to “Focus on the Future,” Paper’s Editor Says Newsday Editor John Mancini, who announced in September that the Long Island, N.Y., newspaper would cut...

NPR, CNN, Atlanta Paper Cover Rights Matriarch Coretta Scott King‘s death at age 78 today took place on a high-volume news day, with President Bush’s...