Category : Maynard Institute archives

U.S. Agency Working With Unity on Public Meeting As the news media fail to measure up to their stated hopes for progress on diversity and...

Make War on “Holiday” Word or Help Save Lives? Here’s a challenge: The crisis in Darfur, Sudan, where killings, rapes, burning and looting continue, has...

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.,...

Ex-BBC Producer Assembling His Own Team Vicki Mabrey, the CBS News correspondent who was dropped from that network when CBS canceled “60 Minutes II,” has...

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...

Unfavorable Stories on Duke’s Accused, Accuser “Durham leaders lashed out Thursday at the way they see the city being portrayed in the national media –...

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...

Missing the Satire, Host Activates Racist Listeners “Barry Saunders and Rush Limbaugh? Those are two names you wouldn’t normally pair together, but the N&O metro...

N.Y. Outlet Unlikely to Restore Black Programming New York City’s WLIB-AM, the black-owned station that tossed out Caribbean-oriented programming to host Air America, is parting...

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...

Wanted: Reporters for “the Story of Their Lives” Six months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, television stations on the Gulf Coast are still reeling, news...

NAHJ President: Unity’s “Next Level” Should Include Whites The new president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, columnist Juan Gonzalez of the New York...