Category : Maynard Institute archives

Top 2 Editors Leave Merged Project Less than six months after Africana.com shut down its Web site and merged into AOL BlackVoices, the editor of...

Commentator Rejects P.R. Society’s Denunciation The syndicated TV show “America’s Black Forum” and The State, the newspaper in the capital of Armstrong Williams’ home state,...

Free Press Review to Look at Past Columns A Detroit Free Press committee examining how sports columnist Mitch Albom was able to get into the...

(Originally published Feb. 7, 2005) Papers Vary in Prominence Given Actor’s Death Can you measure a newspaper by where it played the obituary of actor-activist...

1675 Statute Bars Indians from Boston “Boston is a finalist for hosting a big convention for minority journalists, but a 1675 law requiring the arrest...

Pundit Accused of Payola Gets N.Y. Radio Show “Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator embroiled in controversy after being paid to promote Bush administration policies, has...

The Day “negro” Got Its Capital “N” Some black history calendars note that yesterday signified a milestone in the annals of journalism and race: They...

Calls Mount for Investigation of Contract President Bush expressed disapproval Thursday of the Education Department’s decision to pay commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the No...

Diversity Figures Prompt Call for New Approach “Editors are increasing their hiring and retention of minority journalists at a time when diversity in the U.S....

“Once You Go Black” Line Makes Newscast When the student newspaper at a recent convention of the National Association of Black Journalists decided to start...

Diana Griego Erwin Accused of Fabrication “A member of a Pulitzer Prize winning team resigned from The Sacramento Bee amid an investigation into whether she...

20 in Cross-Country Crash Course on Indians When Lewis and Clark were heading west 201 years ago with no white women nearby, what do you...