Category : Maynard Institute archives

Greatest Gap Is Reporting on Hispanic Children “Experts agree that whites account for only half of the nation’s missing children. But white children were the...

Committee Reports on Retention at D.C.’s Post A “star system” among reporters, bureaucratic obstacles to communication among editors and reporters and failure to post job...

Columnist Wendi Thomas Quits Before She Starts Columnist Wendi C. Thomas, who last month bid farewell to readers of the Memphis Commercial Appeal and moved...

Renaissance Man Known for Gritty Photo Essays “Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and...

Tribute Personal for Some Journalists in D.C. Media figures Oprah Winfrey and Gwen Ifill were among those speaking at the Washington memorial service today for...

Months Later, Owner Finds Pet Was 1,900 Miles Away People like dog stories, and they like tales with happy endings. This one is both, with...

Couric Ascension Confronts Issue of “Gravitas” Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’ “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,”...

Frank Sotomayor Taking Buyout After 35 Years A program for high school and college journalists is the latest casualty of cost-cutting at the Los Angeles...

Black College Papers Face Interference, Flakiness “Uncommitted staffers, interference by the administration and infrequent publishing are among the primary problems faced by newspapers at historically...

Newspapers Falling Below Benchmarks for Progress The number of journalists of color in newspaper newsrooms grew slightly last year, with the greatest growth among Hispanics...

Woman Finds News Crew That Forced Cops to Act A New Orleans woman who lay bleeding in the street after the levees broke in New...

Icon Is Accorded Hometown Hero Status Gordon Parks might have been known internationally as a photographer, film director and artist, but in Kansas City, Mo.,...