Category : Maynard Institute archives

Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: 15 from Journalists The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend seems an appropriate time to report on nonfiction books by or...

Bar Raised on Goal of Parity With Community “The minority population in the Washington region will become the majority in well under a decade,” D’Vera...

Underfinancing Halts Black Lifestyle Monthly The new Chicago-based incarnation of Savoy magazine, which debuted in February, is on “hiatus” and unable to pay its contributors,...

TV One, Black Family Channel Say Yes; BET No TV One and the Black Family Channel plan to join C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News...

Targets Have Included Washington Notables Robin Givhan of the Washington Post today won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism “for her witty, closely observed essays that...

Veteran Wants to See “What’s on the Open Market” Roy S. Johnson, who returned to Sports Illustrated three years ago as an assistant managing editor,...

Management Accepts “Spirit” of Staff Suggestions An internal committee at the New York Times has warned management in a confidential report that “The Times is...

Job of Section Editor Kenneth J. Cooper Is Cut The Boston Globe plans to close its national news department, but not its Washington bureau, to...

Columnists Compare Icon’s Ideals, Today’s Problems On the 20th anniversary of the federal Martin Luther King holiday, African American columnists related King’s significance to topics...

Police Union Strikes Back Over Hidden Cameras Seventeen years ago — two years before the beating of Rodney King—an NBC-TV camera crew secretly recorded a...

Native Angeleno Cracks Op-Ed Page Barrier The Los Angeles Times has created an uproar with the shakeup of its editorial pages announced Friday, but lost...

“Political” Nature of Funeral Debated The day after 10,000 people attended the funeral of Coretta Scott King and millions more saw it on television, commentators...