Category : Maynard Institute archives

Paper Praised for Publishing Rights-Era Photos Phone calls from the news media rang the phone off the hook at the Birmingham (Ala.) News today, reacting...

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...

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...

N.Y. Times Helps Shake “Fatigue” Over Issue The front-page story in the New York Times on Monday, “Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn,” “really...

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...

Site Team Recommends Provisional Accreditation An accrediting team has recommended two-year provisional accreditation for Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, citing a...

Two Black Journalists Get Key Beats The New York Times has assigned two black journalists to key beats – at the State Department and as...

Sunday Papers Made Room on Front Page for Comic Actor The death of actor and comedian Richard Pryor was front-page news in most Sunday newspapers,...

New Orleans Happy With Media Count at Mardi Gras This is the week the worried stewards of New Orleans’ future were waiting for. By the...

“Greatest” Magazine Fronts Reflect Changing Times The 40 greatest magazine covers of the past 40 years — at least as selected by the American Society...

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...

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...