Category : Maynard Institute archives

(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...

Idea of Starting Independent Outlet Rejected A group of Hampton University journalism students, discussing their plight amid charges of intimidation by administrators and minimal support...

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...

Past NABJ President Has No New Job Lined Up Will Sutton, a deputy managing editor of North Carolina’s Raleigh News & Observer, former editor of...

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...

Free Press to Probe How Column Saw Print With her newsroom angry over the lapse in judgment and other journalists around the nation taking pot...

“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...

Reporters Prepared for Worst in School Visits Splashed across the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week was “A Day in Cleveland’s Schools,”...

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...

Wilkins: Anonymous Sources Can Have Real Value “The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was ‘Deep...

Freed Inmate Wants to Continue in Journalism “I’ll be 63 in about three more weeks,” newly freed prison journalist Wilbert Rideau told Adam Liptak in...

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...