Category : Maynard Institute archives

Papers in Houston, Galveston Prepare for Rita Orders to evacuate as Hurricane Rita approaches have left Galveston, Texas, “pretty much of a ghost town,” Editor...

Publisher of Ebony, Jet Was Pioneer Entrepreneur John H. Johnson, the legendary founder of the Johnson Publishing Co., publishers of Ebony and Jet magazines, died...

Journalists Try to Do Jobs Yet Avoid Danger When Hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf Coast at daybreak today with what the Associated Press called...

Burt-Murray Returns to Black Women’s Magazine Angela Burt-Murray, executive editor of Time Inc.’s Teen People and once Essence magazine’s fashion and beauty features editor, today...

“Possibly Deadly” N.O. Actions Described “Blackwater Down: Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity,” is the title...

Pioneer’s Significance Escapes Many in Media John H. Johnson might have been a historical figure in the life of America and especially black America, but...

Contractor Was Paid to Monitor PBS Show Tavis Smiley, the activist host who has shows on both public radio and public television, has joined Bill...

Reassurance on Future of Times-Picayune The president of the company that publishes the New Orleans Times-Picayune said categorically today that regardless of the ability of...

Brother: He’s “Proudly the First Black Editor” Dean P. Baquet, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, will become editor of the paper Aug. 15...

Public Editor, NAHJ Back Rivera Over Keller Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera picked up two defenders in his battle to get the New York Times...

Watts Showed Media the Need for Black Journalists “It was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” began the “eyewitness account” in...

NAJA’s Kara Briggs Chronicles Her Battle “My columns . . . are talking openly about a disease that is relatively new to Native communities, and...