Category : Maynard Institute archives

“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...

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...

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...

Journalist-of-Color Groups Offer Assistance Journalist-of-color organizations expressed their frustration over the lack of progress in diversity at local broadcasting stations after Monday’s release of the...

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...

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...

D.C.’s Post, NPR, Miami Herald Limit Use of Word The Washington Post today joined the Miami Herald, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe, the Tulsa...

Originally published July 15, 2005 Explosive Racial Story From ’64 Considered a Hoax “The existence of a Harlem gang indoctrinated in hatred of all white...

Rivera Broadens Attack after “Editors’ Note” Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera, having secured what he called a “grudging” editors’ note from 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...

2nd Writer, Missing Since Thursday, Turns Up A St. Petersburg Times reporter in Baton Rouge, La., as part of the paper’s hurricane coverage was shot...

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...