Category : Maynard Institute archives

Perkins’ Departure Leaves 3 Blacks Nationally Ken Parish Perkins, one of barely a handful of African American television critics at daily newspapers, has resigned from...

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...

“It Was Something I Wished I Hadn’t Seen” Tony Lopez and Ruby Gonzales were among 17 members of the news media who watched Stanley Tookie...

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...

Detroit Free Press “Pushed Everything Off” When Rosa Parks died tonight at age 92, the Detroit Free Press appeared to be the first news organization...

Changes Affect Ohio, St. Paul, USA Today Mizell Stewart III, who lost his job as editor of the Tallahassee Democrat when Knight Ridder sold the...

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...

Star-Telegram Resignation Renews Discussion A day after the disclosure that television critic Ken Parish Perkins resigned over plagiarism charges at Texas’ Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Executive...

“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...

Journalists Push Back at Critic Ishmael Reed Ishmael Reed, the African American social critic and novelist, took on several leading journalists of color in a...

Network Was Intermediary in Assault-Weapon Drop Using Black Entertainment Television as an intermediary, members of the Bloods street gang turned in assault rifles to Los...