Category : Maynard Institute archives

CNN Plans Extensive Coverage “Just a few weeks back, in one newspaper headline, Ossie Davis was remembered for his role in a Spike Lee movie,”...

Activist Compares Show With Limbaugh’s, Hannity’s Human Rights Watch Worries About Dark-Skinned Libyans Oakland Tribune Nameplate to Vanish in Reorganization Dissatisfaction With Comcast Over Diversity...

Bush Orders Cabinet Not to Pay Commentators It was just on Monday that Amy Alexander wrote on Africana.com, “like Jayson Blair before him, Armstrong Williams...

Newspaper Guild Satisfied With Discipline of Four The Detroit Free Press investigation of sports columnist Mitch Albom‘s body of work has not ended despite the...

“Big, Long, Crazy Discussion” Never Materializes Barely a month after the National Association of Black Journalists established a Lesbian and Gay Task Force, the National...

Editors Explain Why Bigotry Makes the Paper When a letter writer to the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., called columnist Betty Bayé a “porch monkey,” Bayé...

Sale Signals End of Black Ownership of Media Firm Time Inc., which owned 49 percent of Essence Communications, publisher of Essence magazine, has signed a...

Diversity, Attention to Critics Found Lacking The Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, a former editor at the New York Times Book Review, left the Catholic Church...

Black Journalist Rises to Top in Hometown Michael Days, who was named managing editor of the Philadelphia Daily News less than a year ago, today...

Secret Service Received Race Info on Journalists The Secret Service not only knows whether Cedric the Entertainer was funny on Saturday night, but also the...

Essence Spinoff Pulled Back for Rethinking Suede magazine, the Essence spinoff that aims toward a hip, multicultural audience, is going on “hiatus” after four issues...

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...