Category : Maynard Institute archives

Columnists Cite Exclusion From Polls, Debate Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, and Friday’s town hall-style presidential match, will give the candidates a chance to focus...

Newspapers Abandoned the Ex-Star Reporter Gary Webb, the onetime San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter whose series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine trade...

Journalists of Color Among 60 to 70 Laid Off The Dallas Morning News laid off 60 to 70 people today in what some were calling...

African American News Exec Lasted 14 Months Only 14 months after he was named to the job, Princell Hair, one of the top African American...

Former USA Today Writer Chosen as Adviser “The Hampton Script starts publishing Oct. 13 for the academic year, after a delay imposed by the administration...

His Interviewer Asks Who Network Is Targeting Talk-show host Tavis Smiley left his National Public Radio show Thursday without an extended goodbye to listeners, but...

CNN Shutting Down Its Financial Channel “CNN will shut down its struggling CNNfn financial news network in mid-December, giving up its attempt to compete with...

Prosecutor Urges More Protection for Journalists District Attorney Jim Hardin Jr. of Durham, N.C., announced Tuesday that he would not prosecute Raleigh reporter Demorris Lee,...

Debate Moderator Gets Share of Praise, Pans Many journalists of color understandably took pride in Gwen Ifill’s performance moderating Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate —...

Wickham, Dawkins Turn Over Reins at Joyner Site Radio personality Tom Joyner‘s Web site, BlackAmericaWeb.com, is changing the leadership of its news pages as veteran...

40+ Columnists of Color on National, Local Issues Amy Alexander, africana.com: Reading Between the Lines: Having Our Say   Betty Baye, Louisville Courier-Journal: Black political...

Maynard Co-Founder Started Gay Journalists Group Leroy Aarons, a co-founder and board member of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, founding president of the National...